Found a local to talk to us...

Lobster traps

Look how tall and wide these traps are as compared to the height of our Panther ( he was a stowaway in my luggage)
Not your regular bouys but these are individual ID buoys for each lobster trap.

Local lobster man, Tanner, shared a few crustracean secrets with us.

1. One of the largest industry for Nova Scotia is lobster trapping from November to around May each year.

2. After lobster season, they fish for the different fishes to sell to the local market.

3. Lobster likes warmer water, and will come closer to the shore line and spawn their eggs.

4. He drops his 250 traps in the morning and leaves it overnight before he comes back in the morning to pull in his catch. He does come back in the afternoon to check the traps. More often than not, he will find at least one catch per trap when he pulls it in.

5. Tanner has a GPS system in his boat that plots all the traps he "throws" into the water. Imagine if you can not find those! He also baits his trap with chopped up mackerel or some kind of fish.

6. Interesting fact- these lobster catchers do not like SEALS. They actually can shoot these seals and will not get in trouble for doing that. They have no use for these dead seals either. Just this year alone 800 seals have been killed and thats even lower than how much they were expecting to kill!

Though we are studying the climate change for the small land mammals, climate change has also affected the aquatic life. We will investigate that tomorrow when we visit an adjunct coast - interesting - I didnt know what ADJUNCT meant also and had to ask Dr. Chris Newman about it.

Your task is to think why these fisherman and lobster catchers do not like seals AT ALL. Give me at least 3 good responses to it!

I will be waiting!

ps...did you know that when you click on most of my pictures it will give you a larger image of it!