N.B. lobster fishermen defy DFO, leave traps in despite closure for North Atlantic right whales

A federal closure of zones off the Acadian Peninsula is being defied by hundreds of lobster fishermen refusing to remove their traps.Posted: May 23, 2024 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

But at a meeting in Lamèque at the time of the deadline, about 200 members of the Maritime Fishermen's Union decided not to remove their roughly 60,000 traps in the area. However, the fishermen say they will not go out Thursday in order to give the federal agency one more chance to negotiate. Martin Mallet, executive director of the Maritime Fishermen's Union, said negotiations are ongoing with the federal government.

Bernard Haché, who has fished from the Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël wharf for 46 years, said in an interview with Radio-Canada that the closure makes no sense. "We experienced events here in 2003 during the crab crisis. No one wants to go through that again," Cormier said in French.. Four boats, a processing plant and a warehouse were all burned down.

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