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WENDY ELLIOTT: Amazing what you find on the beach

Regular beach walkers develop an eye for colour.

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The blue and green and yellow of lobster bands pop. When you stop to nab one, there are usually others nearby.

Up in Pictou County recently, I nabbed 90 on a single morning walk. Pockets full.

Of course, there’s always other fishing-related debris lying around. Metal pieces of traps, plastic ties and bits of foam.

Does it need to be that way?

Angela Riley, of Middleton, offers a unique perspective on beach trash in her Scotian Shores postings.

On June 21, she noted that during the first six months of 2026 thousands of volunteers had captured 356,000 lobster bands on Nova Scotia beaches. She had earlier estimated 88,888 might be collected.

The plastic bands take something like 10 and 15 years to break down. According to Riley, this fishing detritus results from a lack of industry catchment systems and some are simply lost at sea in bad weather.

Scotian Shores volunteers have collected close to two million pounds of garbage since 2020. A percentage of........

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