We just got back from a bus tour of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. One highlight was a lobster dinner at a giant restaurant where they were featured. The standard meal was a one-pound lobster plus unlimited visits to their sixty-foot salad bar. The one-pound lobster was enough for anyone, really. It was quite good, even though we had to be instructed in how to deal with it. You have to harden your heart.

Unfortunately it was a Sunday when the tour took us to a little seaport where lobster boats were based. We did get a thorough explanation of how the traps worked, and how the lobster fishers could tell which traps were their own. One of the scarce licenses to fish for lobsters, plus a boat, could easily set a person back more than half a million dollars.

There's a project in development to harness the giant tides in the Bay of Fundy using underwater turbines. Lobster fishers have been trying to delay it, saying that it could seriously disrupt the lobsters that live in those waters.