St. Marys Bay, Nova Scotia
St. Marys Bay (Miꞌkmaq language, Miꞌkmaq: Wagweiik) south western Nova Scotia, Canada, is surrounded by the modern municipal districts of Clare, Nova Scotia, Clare Municipal District and Digby, Nova Scotia (municipal district), Digby. Saint Mary's Bay (Wagweiik) is situated within the Federal Fishing District 34, the most lucrative lobster fishing zone in Canada with the Bay accounting for 1,691 metric tonnes of commercially landed lobster in the 2016–2017 season and a record high value of $25.3 million. The bay is also well known for haddock, herring, mackerel, clams and scallops. Pre European contact The native Mi'kmaw have occupied and used Oostitukum (Digby Neck) and the mainland shore and the waters between since before the arrival of Europeans, and the bay is known by the Mi'kmaw as Wagweiik. The mouth of Salmon River is thought to be a traditional summer settlement of the Mi'kmaw and several artifacts have been found there, as well as at Meteghan, Major's Point and ot ...
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