Community concern is growing over continued delays in mounting a plan to remove a shipwreck from fishing grounds near the Cape Breton port of Main-a-Dieu, Nova Scotia.
More than six months have passed since the MV Miner ran aground while being towed to a Turkish scrap yard.
The Nova Scotia government has been trying to arrange a visit to the site by salvagers and the ship's owner.
The province says any salvage plan must protect both the local fishery and Scatarie Island, a designated wilderness area.
A local community group is still waiting to be consulted.
"You can imagine, as a community, as an association, as bystanders really, is what we feel like now," says Amanda McDougall of the Main-a-Dieu Development Association. "It is disheartening to know that we have kind of been pushed to the wayside."
The province expects a site visit by salvagers sometime in April. The federal government has not been involved, claiming the wreck is neither a hazard to navigation, nor the environment.
