| A personal-use mackerel fishery is coming, but P.E.I. fishers don't know when | |
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Source: CBC News |
5/4/2024 |
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Credit: Jean-Pierre Muller/AFP/Getty Images |
Lobster fishers on P.E.I. say they're happy to hear that a personal-use mackerel fishery will open this year, but they're not sure it will help them with bait during the spring season.
"If we got a chance to go get some, we certainly will," said Allan Cody, who fishes out of Covehead. |
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Mackerel is often used as bait in the lobster, halibut and other fisheries.
Cody currently buys bait from a supplier in Tignish but it comes from waters near Iceland, he said. They're frozen and then shipped to Canada. But, "the fresher the mackerel the better." |
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