Fresh, Live Nova Scotia Lobster
"Simon's Pride"
December 1 - May 30
While supplies last
To place orders and arrange a pick up by appointment,
please call
688-1157 or email:  beach@eastlink.ca

"There's no problem so great it can't be solved!"
Barbara Coloroso
 

  In-shore lobster fishing and boat building has been the Bush Family’s way of life and source of income for multi-generations. Milton Bush and, son, Simon, fished from the sea around the LaHave Islands as did Grampy Roy, Great-Grampy Caleb Bush; Great-Great Grampy Stephen Bush and so-forth. The family were conservationists since circa 1797 knowing that their son and grandson's future would depend on how they managed their fishing territory.
Caleb started his career as an inshore fisherman at the age of 10 working with his father. They fished from Bush Island until Caleb married Florence Mosher and settled in West Dublin where he fished until he was 94. This gave him a record of 84 years of working on the sea as an in-shore fisherman. Caleb is known as being the oldest fisherman to have lived in the province of Nova Scotia.


                                   Simon's Pride

 

Simon Bush setting a trap
                                        Simon Bush
 

  Caleb fished from an 11 foot boat until 1930 when his cousin and boat builder, Mikey Bush, built him a 26-foot double ender Cape Island type boat for $60.00. Caleb skippered that craft with its Acadian “one lunger” engine until he retired. Mikey also built life boats to supply our Canadian military during World War II.

Caleb lived to be 106 and credited his longevity to a balanced life with honest work and abstention from alcohol and tobacco as well as a diet primarily of fish, home-grown potatoes, corned beef and cabbage or sauerkraut and home-baked beans and brown bread. Caleb never owned or drove a car, nor did he have a TV. He had his own way of entertaining himself by singing his favorite hymns or telling “yarns of the good ole days” to his many visitors. He was very content with the simple things in life. Caleb died September 21, 1989
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   Caleb had 10 children and only Roy Bush, his youngest son, took to the sea. “They know there is more money and less hard work ashore,” Caleb Bush would say--referring to his other 9 children.

Roy's mother, Florence, died shortly after he was born. Mikey Bush, and his wife Amy, raised Roy for Caleb. Roy enjoyed his fishing career with the in-shore lobster fishery until he died June 29, 2008. Today, Roy's son Milton, harvests from the same waters as Roy and Caleb did. Lobster is the only seafood left from the waters of the LaHave Islands from which to make a living.

Milton still builds his own traps and boats and maintains them in the prideful family business tradition. "I love what I do and I can't think of doing anything else; so I want to keep doing it as long as I can. If I'm blessed, I too, will be 94 when I stop lobstering." says Milton Bush.

  

  Roy Bush
                                            Roy Bush

 
            Milton Bush, Lobsterman

Milton Bush and his family sincerely appreciate the buyers who continue to support their lobster fishery. Their mission is to provide a fresh, live sustainably-caught lobster FOB the Bush Road, West Dublin wharf at a fair-market price -- The Novaway.

For your reference and safety here is the Nova Scotia's Government's Food Safety tips for Nova Scotia Lobster: http://www.gov.ns.ca/agri/foodsafety/factsht/shellfish.shtml

  To spare the planet from the burden of more plastic, we encourage customers to bring their own sanitary cooler, pot or other means of transporting the lobster purchased from our wharf. To help you understand our decision to encourage the reduction of plastic bags please view this video: The Dangers of Plastic Bags.

                        Sincerely,
                        Captain Milton
  

For inquiries:
E-mail:
beach@eastlink.ca
or
Phone
: (902) 688-1157
Milton Bush

Local pickups only.

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