Setting day isn’t just the first day of lobster season in Charlotte County – it is about tradition. In Back Bay, before the sun begins to rise, families gather to send off the fishermen and women in boats that will race to set traps for the season. Some have waited on this wharf in the […]
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By Andrews Bates, Local Journalism Initiative, Telegraph-Journal An Indigenous nation has been granted intervenor status in a case involving a U.S.-based lobster fisher accused of illegally fishing in Passamaquoddy Bay. Erik D. Francis, 55, of Perry, Maine, faces charges under the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act alleging that he illegally fished from a foreign vessel in New Brunswick […]
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The Canadian Coast Guard says four crew members were rescued off the coast of Grand Manan Island over the weekend. In a statement, it said the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Halifax was advised of a capsized fishing vessel – on the first day of the lobster fishing season off Grand Manan Island. The vessel – […]
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The hearing for an appeal decision with the Assessment and Planning Appeal Tribunal for a lobster holding facility in Chamcook was held in Saint Andrews on Tuesday. The appeal application comes after the Town of Saint Andrews planning advisory committee revoked a prior decision to allow Sistansisk (St. Mary’s) First Nation – based in Fredericton […]
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