2016 will go down as a year when a motion was approved to create legislation to address abandoned and derelict vessels.
And while Town of Shelburne Mayor Karen Mattatall points to that as good news, the Farley Mowat vessel remains in the community.
It’s sat at the Shelburne Marine Terminal since 2014 and sunk in June 2015 before it was raised by the Canadian Coast Guard.
Mattatall believes it could happen again.
“We are very fearful that over the winter if that boat is not removed that we may have an issue of sinking again and that certainly is not what we want to have happen.”
Mattatall says she maintains the vessel is the federal government’s responsibility after it was originally seized by them in 2008.
The vessel has cost the Town of Shelburne over $131,000.
She says a new ocean fund established by the feds could be used to help them get rid of the vessel.
Mattatall says the vessel has been a thorn in the town’s side for far too long.
