Lobster gear is getting a colourful makeover this season

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You whitethorn announcement an other popular of colour astir the wharfs and waterways this spring. Some lobster cogwheel has gotten a colourful makeover, with blues, pinks and yellows giving a antithetic hue to this lobster season. The CBC's Leila Beaudoin tells the communicative successful pictures.

Wharfs are getting a glow-up from caller brightly coloured traps, marker buoys and different cogwheel this season

Leila Beaudoin · PHOTOS

· Posted: Apr 26, 2025 4:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

A antheral walks past a agelong enactment of stacked lobster traps, strung with agleam bluish and yellowish ropes.

You whitethorn announcement an other popular of colour astir the wharfs and waterways this spring. Some lobster traps, lines, and different cogwheel person gotten a colourful makeover, with blues, pinks and yellows giving a antithetic hue to this lobster season.

The agleam colours let fishermen to spot their cogwheel easier, and separate it from different traps and buoys floating successful the acheronian Atlantic waves.

The CBC's Leila Beaudoin captured these photos portion connected assignment.

A antheral sits successful beforehand of a ample stack of lobster traps, strung with agleam bluish rope.

Lobster fisherman Keif Way fishes from Sally's Cove each play with his family. Way says successful his 40 positive years successful the fishery, the aboriginal has never looked truthful bright.

A agelong enactment of stacked lobster traps beryllium connected a woody wharf, strung with bluish enactment and pinkish marker buoys.

Bubble gum pinkish and babe bluish opposition sharply with this weathered shed. One of the province's oldest industries has gotten a splash of colour.

This cogwheel belongs to inshore fisherman Brad House. Like his begetter earlier him, helium has been sportfishing each his life.

A unit of 4 fishermen load their vessel astatine sunrise.

Lobster mounting time means each hands connected deck. Helpers heap traps aboard Gary Payne's inshore vessel successful Port Saunders, offloading and repacking their boats until each traps are acceptable for the season.

A young pistillate sits connected a wharf successful beforehand of boats and a agelong enactment of stacked lobster traps.

Mackenzie Hynes, 22, helping Fred Snow and unit retired of Rocky Harbour.

A container afloat of tiny food beryllium connected a wharf.

Bait food utilized successful the traps tin beryllium astir arsenic colouful arsenic the traps themselves.

A young antheral sits astatine the extremity of a wharf astatine sunset, with a agelong enactment of stacked lobster traps successful the foreground and a sportfishing vessel successful the distance.

Of course, it's not conscionable the sportfishing cogwheel providing beautiful, colourful scenes this lobster sportfishing season.

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