P.E.I. Allocation Increase: Fishermen Will Land More Giant Bluefin Tuna This Year
Neil Perry might have a chance to land another bluefin tuna this year.
The Tignish, Prince Edward Island, fisherman, captain of the Little Moses and operator of Island’s End Tuna Charters, is one of more than 300 commercial tuna license holders in the province who received some good news in late June. Their quota was confirmed to be going up by 30 tonnes, bringing it to a total of about 156 tonnes for the 2015 season.
Prior to the increase, the quota was sufficient to allow each licence ...
The Ultimate Lobster Feed: Summerside, P.E.I. Cooks up A Celebration of its Favourite Crustacean
With a happy Latin beat as background noise, chef Norman Zeledon plopped two halves of a lobster tail into an enticing looking concoction simmering on his food-truck’s stove.
The liquid, explained Zeledon, was mixture of butter, lobster juices and other tasty sounding things.
Leaving the lobster to absorb the butter he pulled a puck-sized lobster cake out of the deep fryer, placing it on a bed of colourful salad and garnishing the sides with his specialty coleslaw and a slice of locally ...
Argument for the Halibut: Newfoundland and Labrador Furious, P.E.I. Pleased Over Quota Tonnages
What should have been a joyous occasion in the Atlantic Canada fishing industry has turned into a war of words being shouted across the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
It started out innocently enough, with a 20 per cent increase in the total allowable catch of Atlantic halibut in the Gulf. The regional catch for the giant flatfish will go from 864 tonnes in 2014 to 1,036.8 tonnes for 2015 and 2016.
However, the bone of contention here lies in how that increase has been allocated amongst Atlantic ...
Lucrative Spring Fisheries Finally Underway
Weather Created Major Delays in Starting Lobster and Crab Seasons
In the week leading up to Mother’s Day on Prince Edward Island, there seemed to be one overarching topic of conversation around the coffee shops.
Was mom going to get her traditional feed of fresh lobster?
In this part of the country, May 10 is the first big sales day of the year for fish markets. But with copious amounts of ice still clogging the North Shore, setting day kept being pushed back from its original May 1 ...
Taking Stock of P.E.I.’s Provincial Election
As this article was being written, Prince Edward Island was just ending the half-way point of its 65th general election and all four parties were ramping up their platform rollouts.
Reports from the campaign trail peg issues like accountability and open government as being of great concern to the electorate, and the usual suspects are also at play: the economy, job creation and rural healthcare.
One topic that has not received a great deal of ink and airtime is the Island’s fishing ...
Putting Green Crab on P.E.I’s Menu
Sophie St. Hilaire foresees a day where Prince Edward Islanders will do their part for the environment by sitting down to eat a big plate of green crabs.
The cretin crustaceans are native to Europe and are an invasive species on this side of the Atlantic. They have been spreading throughout Atlantic Canada since the early 1990s.
So why not eradicate them and have a full belly at the same time, reasons St. Hilaire, an associate professor at the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University ...
Clamming Up
P.E.I. couple trying to build homegrown clam industry from the sandbar up
Oysters, mussels and lobsters are pretty much the holy trinity of seafood on P.E.I.
Mention seafood from this province to anyone in the industry and these are the species that will come to mind.
But David and Carla Annand of Freeland are looking to add a fourth species to that list — clams.
More specifically, Atlantic bar clams, also known as surf clams in the U.S.
They’ve started their own small-scale ...
Valuable P.E.I. Oyster Industry Facing Battle for Future
Wild Oyster Harvesters Say Mussel Industry is Eyeing Their Market Share
It was a beautiful Prince Edward Island day at Hurds Point on June 2, 2014, but there were fighting words drifting on the wind.
The shore, opening up to historic Bedeque Bay, was dotted with small oyster dories as men and women unloaded countless boxes of valuable oysters. Out on the water, still more people leaned over the sides of their boats, using oyster tongs to labouriously gather heaping rakes full of red muck, ...
P.E.I. Lobster Industry Looking To Marketing Levy For Future
The Prince Edward Island lobster industry is trying to take fate into its own hands.
A plebiscite has been set for March 2015, in which members of the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association (PEIFA) will decide whether to create a commodity board for the resource. It’s a first step towards their ultimate goal of collecting a one cent per-pound levy from the catch and using the proceeds to market their product.
It’s nothing less than a historic attempt by the industry to take a more active ...
Fishermen Pleased With P.E.I. Fall Lobster Season
Prince Edward Island’s fall lobster season got off to an inauspicious start in 2014 but ended on a high note.
Lee Knox, president of the Prince County Fishermen’s Association, recalls sailing out of Skinners Pond on Aug. 8 with winds gusting to more than 50 km/h as worried family members watched from the shore.
It was probably the worst setting day he’s seen in 27 years, said Knox.
“Fishermen were basically setting in a storm I guess you could call it,” he said.
“Our ...
