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With increasing pressure for the provincial government to drop its plan to reduce the Deer Island ferry service to only one vessel for a four and one-half month period each year, the area's representative in the New Brunswick legislative assembly maintains that an announcement will be made soon...

Tobique First Nation representative Wendall Nicholas arrived on Grand Manan on August 12 with an investigating team to review, restructure and reassess the Tobique fisheries.

A plan to kill sea lice on farm-raised salmon with a pesticide that subsequently will be flushed into several bays in southwest New Brunswick is generating concern among fishermen and environmentalists.

At a special town meeting on August 10, Pembroke voters adopted an ordinance to regulate large-scale water extraction and approved the school budget for 2009-2010.