The Maritime Provinces, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) and New Brunswick, are located in eastern Canada on the Atlantic Ocean seaboard. Maritimers have been harvesting the bounty of the sea from villages along the miles of these shorelines for generations. The American lobster, or as it’s called in this neck of the woods, the “Atlantic lobster”, is a favoured dish that has been fished from these seas for hundreds of years.
Warm waters and warm people make the Northumberland Strait area of Nova Scotia famous! All along the north shore, tiny fishing villages dot the coastline, where the gently rolling hills meet the sparkling blue waters of the Northumberland Strait. This body of water separating Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island makes up a large part of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence and is an ideal habitat for the tasty lobster that is served up in restaurants and at church suppers all along this shore.
Along the north shore you will find many fishing ports where families, friends and neighbors fish side by side season after season. Lobster Fishing Area 26A, which covers Antigonish, Pictou, Colchester, and a small part of Cumberland County, is one of the five designated areas making up the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence district. Around the River John area there are three busy lobster fishing ports: Toney River, Skinner’s Cove and Cape John.
Besides the busy fishing ports located along the North Shore there are a number of processing plants that clean, package and ship the lobster around the world. Arisaig Fisheries Ltd is one such plant.
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