HALIFAX – Uncertainty tempers Ashton Spinney's hopes as the Lower Argyle, N.S., fisherman prepares his boat and traps for the opening of the fall lobster season, usually the year's most profitable.
As catches rise, earnings have dropped.
"We just can't face what we have the past two years," said Spinney of the diminished returns fishermen in Atlantic Canada have reaped on the price of their catch.
"There's not enough margin to keep us going."
In much of Nova Scotia the year's most lucrative fishery gets underway on the last Monday of November. Spinney will be joined by almost 1,800 other fishermen out of ports from Halifax to Digby, N.S., to begin hauling a catch that was worth more than $400 million to the province in 2008, the latest figure available.
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