Lobster Trap, Buoy Trees Celebrate the Season in Southwestern Nova Scotia

Above photo: West Pubnico, N.S. Kathy Johnson photo   The start of the LFA 33 and 34 lobster fishery and the Christmas season are being celebrated in southwestern Nova Scotia this year with three community lobster pot Christmas trees and a buoy tree. Started last year, the 24-foot buoy tree, topped with a two-foot radar reflector, stands stately on the Dennis Point wharf in Lower West Pubnico. A project of the West Side Improvement Society, the buoy tree was constructed out ...