Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative party interim leader Karen Casey made a stop in Pictou Nov. 23 as part of her commitment to visit all 52 constituencies in the province.
Casey did an afternoon tour of the Northumberland Fisheries Museum’s Lobster Hatchery to learn about the process of raising lobsters and releasing them into the wild. Gary Nowlan, vice-chairman of the Fisheries Museum and Director of the Lobster Hatchery, led the tour.
While the hatchery is able to stay afloat with government funds it is currently receiving, as well as revenue earned through museum tours, nowlan said they could be doing more for the industry if the operation was expanded.
Casey said she wants to hear the issues of each community firsthand, her reason for stopping at the hatchery. “it is important for me because when there are discussions about the hatchery industry it is far more meaningful to me now than it was yesterday,” said casey. “it’s the commitment to what you are doing that makes it [the hatchery] so successful.”
Casey said she would do what she could to bring the concerns of the Lobster Hatchery to the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture.
Casey will continue her leadership tour of the province over the months to come. Her goal is to find out what she can do to become the government of choice once again. “I want to be available to people in their own communities to talk to them and listen to what the local issues are."
From the Pictou Advocate