NORTH LAKE – A bonanza of lobster being landed in some areas of the province this spring has led processing plants to establish a daily limit on landings to help regulate the enormous flood of crustaceans.
The processors say they just can’t keep up either with the landings or enough workers so the temporary limit is to provide a balance in the flow of P.E.I.’s largest fishing industry.
“The landings so far are way, way, way up over last year,’’ says Jim Beales, general manager of Ocean Pride Fisheries in Elmira. “I’d estimate in our area it’s about a 20 per cent increase.”
As early as the first week of the delayed fishery, some boats in the East Point and Tignish regions were reporting landings of an estimated 3,000 pounds a day.
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