Powerful storm Fiona slammed into Canada's eastern fishing and farm industries over the weekend, smashing wharves, food processing plants and barns that will take months to repair.
One of the worst storms Canada has ever faced left more than one-third of customers in the Atlantic province of Nova ScotiaFishing is a key industry in Canada's Atlantic provinces, which produce some of the world's largest lobster exports.Fiona destroyed some harbours on Prince Edward Island , a province on Canada's east coast, and scattered lobster traps for miles, leaving a long clean-up ahead, said Allan MacQuarrie, a director of the PEI Fishermen's Association.
Osborne Burke, general manager of the Victoria Co-op Fisheries in Neils Harbour, Nova Scotia, told news outlet CBC that the plant suffered "horrendous" damage, and several 40-foot sea containers full of frozen fish were "thrown around like dominoes."Canada's lobster industry was spared worse damage because fishing is minimal at this time of year, said Geoff Irvine, executive director of the Lobster Council of Canada industry group.
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