There are years the opening of the lobster fishery off southwestern Nova Scotia goes off without a hitch. But not always. Here's a look at some past season opener hits and misses.
Room with a view. Sailing from the Pinkney’s Point, Yarmouth County, wharf at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, for dumping day and the start of the six-month commercial lobster fishery off southwestern Nova Scotia. The start to this year’s LFA 34 season was delayed by two days and two hours. TINA COMEAU PHOTOYARMOUTH, NS – There are years the opening of the lobster fishery off southwestern Nova Scotia goes off without a hitch. But not always.
Last year, DFO had agreed to a two-day flexibility for opening day, allowing the season to open up to two days early if the weather forecast was poor for the last Monday of November. However, Saturday and Sunday didn't offer any better weather windows due to the wind.The LFA 34 lobster fishery was supposed to open Nov. 30 in 2020, but strong winds prevented that from happening and kept pushing things further back.
One thing that wasn’t normal about the season was the COVID-19 pandemic. Fishermen had no idea of what was yet to come when they sailed out on dumping day.High winds on the last Monday of November postponed the start of the season to the following day. The year before, however, there was no Sunday fishing during the first three weeks of the season. That hadn’t given fishers the prices they were hoping for, so many didn’t see the point of giving Sunday a pass again.Grey skies, drizzle and a forecast of an easterly gale set the stage for the season’s opener, but the day got off to a quiet and safe start.
A Supreme Court decision, the Marshall decision, two years later spelled out answers to a lot of these questions. However, as we saw during 2020 and 2021, a lot of questions still hadn't been answered, specifically surrounding the issue of moderate livelihood. In 2022, those questions still linger.
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