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Lobster fishermen end protest – About a thousand boats from N.S. expected back in water today
ANTIGONISH — About a thousand lobster fishing boats from northern Nova Scotia were to return to the water this morning. “We went in this together and we ended it together.” But Heighton said the unity fishermen showed during the protest is more than he has seen during his 47 years fishing out of Cape John, Pictou County. An unplanned tie-up spread from harbour to harbour through marine radio traffic. “Nothing’s happened like this before,” Dan MacDougall, president of the Gulf Nova Scotia Bonafide Fishermen’s Association, said Monday. continued
Maritime fishermen remain in port to protest rock-bottom lobster prices – “It’s a dysfunctional system,”
The Tyee – Peter Dowd of the Gulf Nova Scotia Bonafide Fishermen’s Association said fishermen need to be invited to the table to discuss how they can secure a fair price. He says people in some parts of Nova Scotia were hearing that the price would be as high as $6 a pound early in the season and then dropped to about $3. “The protest is about how is it possible that the market has changed so drastically,” he said from Antigonish, where fishermen met again to discuss the way forward. “It doesn’t make sense that to most of the fishermen how the market could fluctuate so much.” continued ![[Tyee]](http://thetyee.cachefly.net/ui/img/ico_fishie.png){kind=small}
1,000 lobster boats tie up to protest low prices
thechronicalherald – “We’ve got to stick together,” Dan MacDougall, president of the Gulf Nova Scotia Bonafide Fishermen’s Association, told the crowd. continued
