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DFO tracking project has tagged 3,000 lobsters over multiple N.S. fishing areas

March 4, 2022 Canada

Department of Fisheries and Oceans is hoping Nova Scotia lobster fishermen can be persuaded to throw back some of their catch this spring. Specifically, any lobsters decorated with a blue ribbon. The ribbons are part of a large-scale tagging project launched last summer that aims to track movement patterns amid changing ocean conditions. While previous tagging studies have focused on smaller areas, this one covers a large stretch of Nova Scotia’s Atlantic coast, from the northern tip of Cape Breton to an area around Halifax, said Ben Zisserson, a lobster biologist with DFO. >click to read< 07:48

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Boat quotas now in place for some PEI lobster fishermen –

June 3, 2014 Canada

ALBERTON — The president of the Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association expressed frustration Tuesday of a situation that has suddenly found some Island lobster fishermen on boat quotas and others looking for buyers for their catches. Read more here 15:46

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A Fractured Lobster Fishery in the Canadian Maritimes

May 14, 2013 Canada

Nova Scotia Lobster fishermen return to sea after standoff Lobster fishermen in Nova Scotia will be back on the water at first light on Tuesday, after hundreds tied up their boats to fight for better prices from seafood processors. The protest is over, but the problem of low lobster prices at the wharf persists. The protesters said they’ve made their point and have enlisted the province’s fisheries minister as an ally. continued

P.E.I. lobster fishermen returning to water Some fishermen in Western P.E.I. are calling the protest a failure, because it did not pressure processors to raise prices. West Prince fisherman Scott McNeill still believes it was the right thing to do. continued

Lobster fishermen protest over prices ends in New Brunswick Fishermen in New Brunswick’s zone 23 were back on the water again, hauling up traps in the Escuminac and Caraquet areas. Alain-Paul Thériault was among them. They felt they had to go out, he said. continued

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Maritime Lobster fishermen continue fight against low prices

May 11, 2013 Canada

CBC News Posted: May 11, 2013 1:42 PM AT Protests continue across the Maritimes as many lobster fishermen refuse to fish until lobster brokers agree to pay a higher price. continued

Current wholesale lobster prices

	Prince Edward Island	New Brunswick	Nova Scotia
Price for canners	$2.75 – $3.75	$3	$3.75
Price for market lobster	$3.25 – $3.50	$3.50	$4

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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