Chart 25 · Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lobster and Snow Crab
Northumberland Strait — LFA 25 / CFA 12
Captains Edge records where you fished, what you hauled and what you landed — on a boat with no signal, on a screen you can read in the sun, with your positions kept to yourself.
| Buoy | Pieces | Latitude | Longitude | Depth | Bottom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #47 | 14 | 46°38.412′N | 063°21.907′W | 12 fm | Mud |
| #48 | 9 | 46°38.301′N | 063°21.774′W | 13 fm | Mud / weed |
| #49 | 17 | 46°38.190′N | 063°21.640′W | 15 fm | Hard |
| #50 | 11 | 46°38.077′N | 063°21.512′W | 16 fm | Hard |
| #51 | 6 | 46°37.964′N | 063°21.388′W | 18 fm | Rock |
Why it exists
Most fishing software is built by people who have never tried to enter a buoy number with cold hands while the boat is rolling.
Captains Edge is built to the daily notes of a working harvester in LFA 25 — every screen has been through a season, and the awkward parts got fixed because somebody complained about them that evening.
That is also why it is deliberately narrow. It logs fishing. It does not try to be a marketplace, a chat app or a fish-finder.
Legend
Buoys and strings
Every trap hauled, with the position taken where you hauled it — not where you remembered to press save.
Depth and bottom
Fathoms and ground type against each buoy, so a string can be read back a year later.
Trip and landing
Sailing and landing times, ports, landed weight, buyer and hail references. Closed once, before you tie up.
Shared only on your say-so
Marks and vessel positions go to the captains you choose. Off by default, revocable in one tap, enforced on the server.
Licences aboard
Registrations, licences and safety papers, openable on deck with no signal. Muster list included.
Settlement
Landings, expenses and crew shares across the season, so settling up is arithmetic you can check.
Notes
Note A — Signal
Plenty of apps say they work offline and mean they show you a cached page. Captains Edge writes every entry to a database on the device first. The network is an afterthought that catches up later.
A haul is saved the moment you log it, because it is. Steam out of range and every screen keeps working, chart included. When signal returns the queue drains oldest first, without you doing anything. If two devices on one boat disagree, the newer edit wins and the other is kept — neither can quietly erase the other.
Note B — Reporting
We are working toward qualification with Fisheries and Oceans Canada as a third-party electronic logbook provider, so the trip you already recorded can be submitted as your logbook return instead of being copied out a second time onto paper.
Nothing is ever sent to DFO without you seeing exactly what is being submitted and confirming it. This feature is not yet qualified, and this page will say so until it is.
Note C — Where your data is held
Every record — accounts, fishing days, catch and effort, trips and landings, and the documents you upload — is held on servers in Canada, in Montréal. Read the privacy policy →
Contact
Captains Edge is built around lobster and crab in the Gulf. If you fish a different licence and the log does not fit it, that is worth an email — the fisheries we cover next will be the ones captains ask for.