New Fisheries Manager

We are pleased to welcome Jonathan Lowe as the new Fisheries Manager for Millbrook First Nation. Mr. Lowe has over twenty years of experience in fisheries biology and aquatic research, marine management, and coastal economic development. He most recently worked for the Province of Nova Scotia as a senior marine resource advisor. His other employment experience includes term positions at Parks Canada -Kejimkujik Seaside Adjunct, Acadia University, the Municipality of Kings County and the Department of Lands and Forestry. 

Mr. Lowe has been a member on various diversity hiring panels, along with diversity work committees aimed at ensuring workspaces are reflective of underrepresented and marginalized groups, and those with protected characteristics as defined by human rights and employment equity legislation in Canada. He has volunteered with the Aboriginal Training and Employment Commission (APTEC) and currently the Native Council of Nova Scotia. He has completed courses specific to human resource selection and hiring processes for promoting diversity within organizations and undertaken specific training on consulting with Indigenous peoples here in Nova Scotia. He has also completed university coursework in environmental law.

Mr. Lowe has a passion for working with First Nations and Indigenous communities and is a strong supporter of Aboriginal and treaty rights. He is a proponent of Mi’kmaw community-based fisheries management which directly incorporates the concept of Netuklimk and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge while complementing objective science. He believes that our intrinsic values of collaboration, kindness and unity will move us forward as a strong and thriving Mi’kmaw Nation.

Mr. Lowe is an off-reserve Mi’kmaq, originally from Milton, Queens County. He enjoys hunting, fishing, trapping, learning about and harvesting wild edibles and medicines, and researching Mi’kmaw history in his spare time.