Mr. Speaker, tomorrow is dumping day. No, it is not another Liberal cabinet shuffle. Tomorrow, in Lobster fishing areas 33 and 34, almost 2,000 fishing boats from Prospect Bay, New Harbour, Lunenburg, Liverpool, Cape Sable Island, Shag Harbour, St. Mary's Bay and Digby will set out before dawn to dump up to 400 lobster traps per boat into the deep, briny sea. Tomorrow, legal fishermen will be fishing the best lobster in the world in the most important fishery in Nova Scotia, from the edge of the shore to 80 miles out in the North Atlantic from now until May. With waves crashing over them in storms and sunny days to catch the food we eat, it is the most dangerous fishery in the world.
My wish for these lobster harvesters is that the seas be calm and that the lobsters be crawling. May the fishing grounds be prosperous, making long days seem short. May the shore prices and markets be steady, and may the thoughts of loved ones and family guide them safely back to port each day of the season.