Nova Scotia lobster pilot project to be expanded, details to come: minister

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HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s fisheries minister says a lobster quality pilot project announced 15 months ago has been so successful that it’s being expanded to another fishing area.

Keith Colwell has refused to say where the project is taking place, but says a formal announcement on the program will be made sometime within the next few weeks.

Few details are known, other than the pilot involves a region-specific three cent levy aimed at improving lobster quality for export markets.

Colwell also says he will announce the formation of a new lobster advisory council, a body composed of a cross-section of interests in the fishery that will give his department advice on policy.

He says it’s part of the province’s effort to boost marketing initiatives, despite unsuccessful attempts to get all fishermen to agree to a province-wide marketing levy.

Colwell says while he hasn’t given up on the levy, there won’t be one until fishermen in the province’s largest lobster fishery in southwestern Nova Scotia get on board.

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