Twenty-two fishing groups and companies are getting $1.73 million from the province to work toward lowering their carbon emissions.
In total, this round of funding will go to 22 businesses and will go to a variety of things, ranging from electrifying boats to installing solar systems, according to a government news release from Friday.
“Nova Scotia produces the best seafood in the world and the investments announced today will help make our processing sector more efficient and productive. With the many challenges Canada has faced lately, every step in streamlining and modernizing our sector is vital in competing globally and supporting communities and jobs at home,” wrote Ian McIsaac, President of the Seafood Producers Association of Nova Scotia, in the release.
China and the U.S., the largest importers of Canadian seafood, have both announced tariffs on fish and other aquatic products heading to those countries.
The money from Friday’s announcement comes from a previously announced three-year fund. By the end, it will have spent $6.5 million on the fishing industry to help climate change-related products. So far, the government has spent $3.54 million on 36 projects.
They say they will have their third round of funding applications later this year.
Here’s the full list of projects and businesses getting funding from the province:
– Mersey Seafoods – $28,000 toward wharf electrification infrastructure to eliminate idling of three vessels while tied up at the wharf
– Waycobah First Nation – $18,953 for data logging on lobster vessel to explore potential for future vessel electrification
– Membertou Fisheries Ltd. Partnership – $250,000 for charging infrastructure to support electric lobster vessel
– Asadalia Fisheries – $250,000 for a hybrid diesel-electric lobster vessel
– Canadian Red Crab Co. Ltd. – $38,500 for a two-degree heat exchanger in their live lobster holding facility, to reduce refrigeration loads
– Saww Lobster Inc. – $18,000 for a floating head condenser refrigeration for their live lobster holding facility
– RRPM Lobster Inc. – $97,500 for floating head refrigeration and two-degree heat exchanger for the refurbishment of their lobster pound
– Twin Seafood Ltd. – $52,500 for floating head refrigeration in their live lobster holding facility
– Deep Cove Aqua Farms Ltd. – $100,000 for floating head refrigeration and two-degree heat exchanger to expand their live lobster holding capacity
– Lobster Hub Inc. – $100,000 for floating head refrigeration and two-degree heat exchanger for a new lobster pound
– Age Lobster Inc. – $25,000 to add floating head refrigeration and two-degree heat exchanger to their currently unrefrigerated tanks
– Emery Smith Fisheries Ltd. – $100,000 for floating head refrigeration, two-degree heat exchanger and settling tank to assist with water level issues at their live lobster holding facility
– Fisherman’s Market International Inc. – $35,000 for floating head refrigeration in their live lobster holding facility to help reduce their electrical load
– Hot Lobster Fisheries Ltd. – $56,984 for a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic system to offset their lobster processing facility
– Hailmar Investments Ltd. – $100,000 for a roof-mounted solar photovoltaic system to offset their electrical load at their lobster pound
– South Shore Lobster Ltd. – $87,155 for a roof-mounted solar photovoltaic system to offset their electrical load at their lobster pound
– Shoal Cove Developments – $24,826 for a roof-mounted solar photovoltaic system at their marine/boat repair shop
– Shandaph Oysters Co. Inc. – $33,997 for a roof-mounted solar photovoltaic system with storage capability to electrify their off -grid aquaculture operations
– Ryan’s Fancy Fisheries Ltd. – $67,571 for a roof-mounted solar photovoltaic system on infrastructure supporting their commercial fishing operations at two sites
– Innovative Fishery Products – $95,165 for a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic system at their operational facility
– Aqualitas Inc. – $100,000 for a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic system at their finfish aquaculture facility
– Right Source Group Ltd. – $50,867 for a roof-mounted solar photovoltaic system at their seafood processing facility
