RCMP are investigating after a fire destroyed another lobster pound in Nova Scotia just days before lobster season in the area opens on Tuesday.
Staff Sgt. Marc Rose said the 911 call came in shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday that the fish plant on Riverside Road in New Edinburgh, N.S., was on fire.
He said flames could be seen from a “great distance away.”
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