As crazy as it sounds, the idea to throw lobster back in the water is paying P.E.I. fisherman on the South Shore back in dividends, according to CBC News.

In 2004, as the lobster fishery hit hard times on the South Shore, fisherman agreed to release female lobster of a certain size to increase the overall stocks. At the time, the move was highly controversial. “A lot of fishermen weren't happy with that because they were having a hard time making ends meet as it was,” Danny Arsenault, president of the Prince County Fishermen's Association, told the CBC. “Our backs were to the wall and we had to do something.”

LENNOX ISLAND, P.E.I. — After closing last summer, the Lennox Island First Nation, P.E.I.-based Minigoo Fisheries lobster plant is expected to re-open in the spring, CBC News reports.

After the Native-owned Minigoo company went bankrupt — owing creditors $3 million — last July, the Lennox Island band returned to the plant with the name Minigoo 2010 and made some managerial changes.

SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — Making the jump to natural energy has saved the owners of Kool Breeze Farms some money — and garnered national attention.

The Summerside, P.E.I.-based egg farm and greenhouse operation, owned by brothers Ian and Douglas Simmons, recently made the cover of the Egg Farmers of Canada catalogue for its use of wind turbines. “It’s the cleanest energy you can produce,” Ian told Egg Farmers. “We have a lot of wind in P.E.I., and we should use our natural resources to the best of our ability.”

P.E.I. — Prince Edward Island potatoes are flying off trucks and ships in record-high numbers.

According to various reports, demand for Maritime-grown spuds is up 90 per cent overseas and 10 per cent in North America from last year, largely due to decreased production in Russia and some parts of the U.S.

"The demand from Russia is certainly a bonus for us,'' Greg Donald, general manager of the P.E.I. Potato Board, told Charlottetown’s Guardian newspaper. ”We're experiencing some export demands from places we hadn't planned on and others looking for more than usual, and that's moving the crop in a good way."