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Cape Islanders in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. A Cape Islander, a style of fishing boat mostly used for lobster fishing, is an inshore motor fishing boat found across Atlantic Canada having a single keeled flat bottom at the stern and more rounded towards the bow. The Cape Island style boat is famous for its large step up to the bow.
Risley was born on April 26, 1948, [1] in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of Robert Campbell Risley (1908–1964), the first commanding officer of a military police unit and later an insurance broker, and Patricia Anne Bourke (1920–2014).
Alongside the mining industry, the fishing industry also grew. Over time, the village has become dependent on lobster fishing as its main resource. In 2000, the lobster fleet consisted of 47 boats. [1] There has been a fish-processing plant operating at the harbour continuously by one family since 1941. There is also a boatbuilding business in ...
Fishing remains the main year round industry with several commercial lobster and scallop boats operating from the wharves in addition to a large lobster pound. The Harbour Authority of Halls Harbour took control of the harbour from the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in 1996.
Clearwater Seafoods is a seafood company based in Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada. [1] It is the largest shellfish producer in North America. [2] The company was founded in 1976 by John Risley and Colin MacDonald. [1] The pair sold lobster out of a truck, and gradually expanded the business from there, reaching global revenues of Can$500 million ...
Lobsters can’t hide from 104-year-old Virginia Oliver — Maine’s famous “Lobster Lady.” She’s been trapping the crustaceans for almost a century and is ready to catch some more this summer.
A lobster boat owned by a non-status Indigenous person was also sunk in Yarmouth. [3] On October 18, 1999, the West Nova Fishermen's Coalition, an organization in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, applied for a rehearing of the appeal and asked for the judgement to be set aside until a new hearing. [2]
The sudden death of Scott Farrow, her husband of five years, had Di Novi drowning in sorrow. Almost immediately after, COVID-19 virtually shut down the nation, and three days into the pandemic, Di ...