Two Nova Scotia entrepreneurs are partnering with a North Carolina life sciences startup to develop a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly system for baiting lobster traps.
Vince Stuart is the president of Clare Machine Works and Matt d’Entremont is the director of Dalhousie’s Nova Scotia Product Design and Development Centre. Together, they are designing and testing a suite of new delivery technologies for OrganoBait, a synthetic bait from Kepley BioSystems.
Standard practice in the lobster industry is to place food-grade fish inside traps. But when the lobsters enter, they