{"id":7901,"date":"2024-11-26T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2024-11-26T18:54:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:54:56","slug":"queens-county-fishermen-head-out-to-sea-on-dumping-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/11\/26\/queens-county-fishermen-head-out-to-sea-on-dumping-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens County fishermen head out to sea on Dumping Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lobster boats leave Port Medway Harbour early Tuesday morning on Dumping Day. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

More than 1,400 fishing boats left wharves early this morning along the South Shore as lobster season got underway in southwestern Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

Known as Dumping Day, it\u2019s the day that fishermen set their traps in some of North America\u2019s most lucrative lobster grounds. Nova Scotia exported more than $1.3 billion of lobster last year.<\/p>\n

Dumping Day was delayed by a day this year because of weather.<\/span><\/p>\n

Catches were down overall last year, but still accounted for about $318 million.<\/p>\n

Some 680 vessels from Queens County motored out at 7 a.m.<\/p>\n

Dozens of family and community members were at the wharf in Port Medway to wish fishermen a safe season, which wraps up at the end of May.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the people and sounds from the morning.<\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

QCCR acknowledges the support of the Community Radio Fund of Canada\u2019s Local Journalism Initiative.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than 1,400 fishing boats left wharves early this morning along the South Shore as lobster season got underway in southwestern Nova Scotia. Known as Dumping Day, it\u2019s the day that fishermen set their traps in some of North America\u2019s most lucrative lobster grounds. Nova Scotia exported more than $1.3 billion of lobster last year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[358,2116,2638,2639,69,1958,2653,2240,68,2266,2267,238,49,2118,217],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-caledonia","tag-cathie-pincombe","tag-dumping-day","tag-fishermen","tag-fishery","tag-fishing","tag-john-conway","tag-katharina-cochrane","tag-lobster","tag-lobster-fishing","tag-lobster-season","tag-port-medway","tag-queens-county","tag-ray-leger","tag-south-queens-chamber-of-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7904,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions\/7904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}