The traps are coming ashore, marking the end of the 2017-18 commercial lobster fishery in southwestern Nova Scotia on Thursday. The season is being described as not a banner year, but not a bad one.
“Overall, the season has been a good season,” said Bernie Berry, president of the Coldwater Lobster Association. “At first the catches were good, the prices were decent, but then the weather set in through the winter and spring was a little bit slow starting. It hasn’t been a banner spring but hasn’t been a disaster, either.”
Weather has been a major factor for fishermen in Lobster Fishing Areas (LFA) 33 and 34 this season, from the one-day delay to the opening and hurricane-force winds in late December, to a steady rip of nor’easters this spring.
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