Deer Island, N.B. is home to 600 year-round residents.
Deer Island, N.B. is accessible only by boat. Rush hour on the island includes the ferry.
Photo: Warren Lynn
The East Coast Seafood/Paturel International lobster facility.
A view from the ground.
The Deer Island facility receives fresh lobster hours after harvest.
Photo: Warren Lynn
If lobsters are not shipped immediately, they are stored in the world’s largest lobster pound on Deer Island, N.B.
Managing lobster inventory in our natural, outside pounds.
Fresh from the natural lobster pound, lobsters enter the plant.
Storage facilities include large holding tanks for lobsters.
Deer island facilities include a "trickle" system for maintaining fresh lobsters.
State-of-the-art processing, and hand-picked lobster.
Box production for live lobsters.
Shipping and receiving inside the plant.
Our products are transported daily to various airports. East Coast Seafood/Paturel International lobsters are shipped all over the world.
Home of the lobster: Deer Island, N.B.
