Alternative Bait Options Generating Interest but Challenges Persist
Above: Lonnie Snow photo
While interest is growing in an alternative bait product developed on Prince Edward Island, it’s not without some challenges.
“As far as interest, phone calls, emails, there’s a 1,000 per cent increase. Sales have basically doubled from last year,” says Mark Prevost, co-founder of Bait Masters located in Nine Mile Creek, P.E.I.
Prevost said the company has three people employed full time and the occasional part timer in the winter, ...
Full Production of P.E.I-Manufactured Alternative Bait Expected by October
Above: Wally MacPhee and Mark Prevost, founders of Bait Masters in Nine Mile Creek, P.E.I., plan to begin full production of their alternative bait product this fall. Contributed photo
A Prince Edward Island company has plans to be in full production of an alternative bait product for the lobster and snow crab fisheries by this October.
Bait Masters was founded by Mark Prevost and Wally MacPhee of Nine Mile Creek, P.E.I. Prevost was a commercial fisherman, while MacPhee ...
