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Bonus Episode: Consider the Lobstermen

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The Migma People's Right to Fish

The court sided with donald, which meant the migma people's right to fish trumped the existing rules protecting the fishery. The decision was hailed as a massive victory for the migma but there was one big catch. They wrote that the treaty rights allowed the migma to sell only as much as would sustain a moderate livelihood. But they didn't define what they meant by moderate, or how much migma fishermen could actually catch in the year since. This ambiguity kept raising the temperature on that simmering lobster pot, until last fall,. it finally boiled over, after the break cut lines, confiscated boats and flotillas of angry fishermen.

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