I have been doing this since I was 15 years old. I am almost 61.
Over time, I never worried about EI. I went from lobster to groundfish, back to lobster to groundfish. EI wasn't a thing. With the downturn since the 1980s, and then in the 90s it started going down. Now all we have left is lobster. It's sad, and it's scary because that is on shaky ground.
The lobster moved from southwest Nova Scotia, and then in Newfoundland and PEI, their catches went up a little bit. In southwest Nova Scotia, we get lobsters from Deer Island now, and they will get them from PEI when they open.
Even though our season is six months, there are storms and everything, and we depend on other districts for their lobsters too.