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Last week charges were laid in Ecum Secum and Marie Joseph after a boat Canada Goose sale was rammed and canada goose clearance sale a fisherman was assaulted in retribution.

Two days later traps were still getting cut and threatening phone calls were allegedly being made in the long running dispute between the Chambers and the Pace families.

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In this shore of small communities and families who have lived next to one another for generations both connections and feuds run deep.

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But it goes against the custom.

law professor once said to me as a young lawyer that rules are made for the guidance of the wise and the strict obedience of fools, said Clifford Hood, a Yarmouth lawyer who has dealt with fisheries disputes for much of his nearly five decades of practice.

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