The federal government, as part of a $1-billion cross-Canada project, is helping with construction costs on small craft harbours in Prince Edward Island and northern New Brunswick. The Pointe-Verte harbour in New Brunswick and the Miminegash harbour in P.E.I. will undergo work to improve safety and climate resilience, according to a news release from the government. Last spring Ottawa said it would spend nearly $1 billion over five years to repair, maintain and modernize small craft harbours across the country. The Pointe-Verte harbour, which is home to roughly 16 commercial fishing vessels and crews, will receive rock-over on four wharf structures, new floating docks and reconstruction on the existing slipway. Advanced planning on the work is expected to start in 2027. “Small craft harbours are the backbone of coastal communities,” said Serge Cormier, MP for Acadie-Bathurst, in the release. “Harvesters need infrastructure they can rely on, and the work that will be done here at Pointe-Verte harbour, as well as other neighbouring harbours, will give the local fleet a safer, more reliable place to tie up their vessels and land their catches.” The Pointe-Verte harbour brought in more than $2.7 million in commercial fishery landings in 2024. The Miminegash harbour, which houses roughly 41 commercial fishing vessels and crews on P.E.I.’s western shore, will have two southern breakwater structures reconstructed, a shoreline protection structure and a wharf. The harbour’s commercial lobster fishery landings brought in more than $10 million in 2025.
