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A ferry repair ‘nightmare’ for island fisheries as lobster season begins
The Grand Manan Adventure was set for a scheduled six-week refit and was supposed to be back in service this past weekend, Morse said. With lobster season kicking off Monday, that’s meant the smaller Grand Manan V has been on the hook to carry the catch, as well as islanders, back to the mainland. “There was a lot of work that they had to do, so we knew it was going to be a longer-term thing than what was normal,” she said. “For Grand Manan, the lobster fishery is the backbone of our economy and it’s vitally important that we have the ferry capacity to be able to ship lobster, because it’s a live product. It needs to get off the island quickly and in a timely fashion.” >>click to read<< 10:24
Lobster fishermen hope to cut costs with shipping containers
If Joe Boudreau gets his way, the only hand that touches a lobster before it reaches a customer in Asia, Europe or United States will be that of the fishermen who takes it from a trap and puts it in one of his crates. Boudreau’s method of transporting lobster will get its first test run this year, courtesy of a fishermen’s co-op out of Ballantynes Cove, a longtime Sydney-based fish buyer, and the Eskasoni First Nation. Outside Boudreau’s modest Antigonish shop is a transport truck trailer and two shipping containers being outfitted with a custom system to mimic the ocean environment during transport for Live Ship. Owned by brothers Jim and Allison Gillis, Live Ship plans to send its first loads of lobster to Europe later this summer. >click to read<08:25
