P.E.I. Fishermen Want Federal Officials To Slow Down Carapace Size Increases

VICTORIA, P.E.I. – A Victoria fisherman says lobster harvesters were given no alternative but to increase lobster carapace size by five millimetres over three years.

Buster Boulter, a lobster fisherman for 35 years, said the five-millimetre increase will impact fishermen.

“We did a one millimetre increase last year and now they want two more this year and two more the next,” said Boulter.

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