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Ocean lifeline saved N.S. lobster pound cut off for 13 days by wildfires
The situation was bleak. The wildfire was moving closer and there were $5 million worth of live lobsters in tanks with no power, no refrigeration, no water circulation and no way to get fuel for the generators. “And the roads are closed. The roads were on fire. So it’s not like we could say, ‘wow, just let us bring a truck in.’ So we had to find a Plan B,” recalled Greg Sutcliffe, plant manager at the Fisherman’s Market lobster pound at Ingomar on the tip of southern Nova Scotia. It was one of two Fisherman’s Market operations on the coast inside the Shelburne County fire evacuation zone. At Ingomar, Plan B was to get there by boat. >click to read< 10:00
