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Richibucto scallop festival underway

RICHIBUCTO - Richibucto's scallop festival is underway. The week-long event, which ends Sunday, features fishing boat parades and races, musical evenings and fireworks. The festival aims to highlight the fishing industry's important contribution to the Richibucto region.

Ecology

Nature centre's rent forgiven

OTTAWA - The federal cabinet has forgiven the non-profit Cape Jourimain Nature Centre $42,000 in rent. The rent had accumulated between 2000 and 2007 at the national wildlife centre near Bayfield, the New Brunswick end of the Confederation Bridge. Executive director Sabine Dietz said there was always a verbal agreement the rent would not have to be paid and the federal order-in-council passed recently makes that official.

Missing

Police search for shellfish harvester

SHIPPAGAN - RCMP are asking for the public's help in locating a man in his 60s from Shippagan. Claude Chiasson, a shellfish harvester, was last seen on the morning of June 22 near the beach in Haut-Shippagan. His car was found near where he disappeared. Chiasson is 5-foot-9, weighs 160 pounds has grey hair and wears glasses. When he was last seen, he was wearing a black and white plaid shirt, a grey cap and light-coloured pants.

Gasoline

N.S. government sticks to tax plan

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter says his government's plan to reduce gasoline taxes in communities along the New Brunswick border will not be expanded to the province's other entry points. Dexter says he's sticking to a campaign promise to reduce gas taxes only in Amherst and other nearby towns. The opposition Conservatives says several other communities with cross-border traffic could benefit from lower gas taxes.

Health

Medical training site has rural focus

FREDERICTON - A new medical education training site at a hospital in northern New Brunswick is aiming to help recruit and retain doctors in rural areas. The training site at the Caraquet hospital opened this week, along with eight medical beds and four palliative care beds. The site will teach students from the Centre de formation medicale du Nouveau-Brunswick and the medical program at the Université de Sherbrooke.

Event

Lobster festival on in Shediac

SHEDIAC - The 60th annual lobster festival is underway in Shediac, the self-proclaimed lobster capital of the world. The festival, which runs until Sunday, features outdoor entertainment nightly. The festival also features a lobster eating contest. Every night volunteers are chosen from the crowd to eat three lobsters with their bare hands in the least time possible.

Fishery

Lobstermen brace for bad season

SHEDIAC - Lobster fishermen are bracing for what could be one of the worst seasons in decades, judging by how their northern neighbours fared during their season. The lobster season for Area 25, which encompasses the western part of the Northumberland Strait, opens Aug. 10. Area 23, which covers the Bay of Chaleur to Escuminac, east of Miramichi, finished up its lobster season on June 30. With lobster prices dipping as low as $2.75 a pound and catches down, northern New Brunswick fishermen failed to break even.

Food

Poultry producer to review decision

FREDERICTON - A poultry processor is waiting to review the decision of a recent competition tribunal before deciding whether to appeal. Yves Landry, general manager of Nadeau Poultry Farm near Edmundston, says the company wants details on why a federal competition tribunal rejected its application to prevent the province's largest supplier of chickens from taking all of its poultry to a Quebec processing company. The processing company has until September to decide.