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Spring lobster season setting day will be Friday in 2 LFAs off P.E.I.

The 2025 spring lobster fishing season is set to begin on Friday, with areas off Prince Edward Island's North Shore and southeastern coast opening on the same day.

P.E.I.'s lobster fishers will be able to haul their traps until June 25

Thinh Nguyen · CBC News ·
Lobster traps stacked high at Beach Point Wharf.
Lobster traps being loaded at Beach Point Wharf on the spring fishery's opening day in April 2023. (Nicola MacLeod/CBC)

The 2025 spring lobster fishing season is set to begin on Friday, with areas off Prince Edward Island's North Shore and southeastern coast opening on the same day.

The season is scheduled to open for setting out traps on April 25 at 6 a.m. in Lobster Fishing Area 26A1 along Prince Edward Island's southeastern coast, stretching from Souris to Victoria-by-the-Sea.

This map shows the locations of Lobster Fishing Area 24, covering the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, and Lobster Fishing Area 26-A1, stretching from Souris in the northeast to Victoria in south-central P.E.I. Lobster Fishing Areas 26-A2 and 26-A3 take in parts of northern Nova Scotia.
This map shows the locations of Lobster Fishing Area 24, covering the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, and Lobster Fishing Area 26A1, stretching from Souris in the northeast to Victoria in south-central P.E.I. (DFO)

Setting day for the North Shore fishery — in Lobster Fishing Area 24, which reaches from around Tignish to East Point — is also scheduled for an April 25 opening at 6 a.m.

The last day of fishing will be June 25.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, the P.E.I. Fishermen's Association showed a notice from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, commonly called DFO.

A notice from Fisheries and Oceans Canada goes over the opening of lobster fishing area 24 along the north shore of P.E.I. on Friday, April 25. They also urged fishers to take extra care while navigating on opening day.
A statement from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans that was posted to the Prince Edward Island Fishermen's Association (Prince Edward Island Fishermen's Association/Facebook)

"A second DFO conference call was held this morning with Environment Canada and Climate Change as well as fishing industry reps to confirm the forecast for Friday in this area and the opening," an earlier notice from the fishermen's group said in part. 

"We'd like to wish our captains and crew ... a safe setting day and a prosperous fishing season for all."

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