Lobster is Canada’s most valuable seafood export, but for fishermen in Atlantic Canada daily trips to and from shore to check their traps can cost up to five-thousand dollars a week.

But thanks to a local inventor, fishermen in the Meteghan area of Nova Scotia are going to get a bit of a break this summer.

Vince Stuart has spent almost a decade perfecting the Bait Savour and thanks to help from Dalhousie University’s Innovation and Design Lab, it should hit the market in December.

In the meantime, Meteghan fishermen will get to test out the device with its time-delayed bait release this summer.

The invention lets fishermen extend the amount of time they can leave their traps unattended but still baited.

The Bait Savour is already generating positive buzz.

It won a $100,000 innovation prize from Innovacorp in Nova Scotia and most recently was named as one of the top 10 inventions of the year by Popular Science magazine.

If successful, the Bait Savour could cut operational costs for some of the region’s 10,000 fishermen.