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Federal fisheries scientists say their most recent sampling of juvenile lobster in southwest Nova Scotia indicate a decade-long trend of abundant populations is holding steady.

"It's closer to the long-term average. Not the extreme high or low. Somewhere along the middle of what we've seen," said Adam Cook, a federal research scientist.

Canada's Fisheries and Oceans department has three sites in southwest Nova Scotia where it captures juvenile lobsters after they settle to the ocean floor.

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