DELAY IN OPENING OF THE LOBSTER FISHERY
Moncton – April 23, 2015 EKME # 3461521
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Gulf Region, wishes to advise harvesters that due to ice conditions in the
Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, the spring lobster fishery will not open on April 30, 2015 as originally
scheduled. The season opening will be delayed until ice conditions improve. More information will be
made available in a subsequent Notice to Fish Harvesters to be released on April 29, 2015.
For more information, please contact:
Dan McLaughlin
Resource Management
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Moncton, NB
506-851-6234
Sandra Comeau
Resource Management
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Tracadie-Sheila, NB
506-395-7740
Chris Mills
Resource Management
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Charlottetown, PEI
902-566-7807
Leroy MacEachern
Resource Management
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Antigonish, NS
902-735-7102
