Nova Scotia lobster buyers keep crustaceans on hold. Louisburg Seafood hopes to keep more than 1,000 crates of lobsters alive long enough to find buyer CBC News - Responding to a supply glut, lobster buyers are doing whatever they can to keep thousands of lobsters alive until prices improve. Many have dropped prices and imposed boat quotas on hundreds of Nova Scotia lobster fishermen from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Eastern Shore. Louisbourg Seafood hopes to keep more than 1,000 crates of lobsters alive long enough to find a buyer. Effective Friday, Eastern Shore fishermen were told buyers will take no more than 500 pounds (227 kilograms) per day. Further east in Guysborough County, 400 other fishermen have a 600-pound (272-kilogram) limit. There are also quotas in the Gulf. The system is clogged.- Jerry Amirault Warmer weather and big lobster landings in eastern Nova Scotia coincided with huge catches from the larger southwest Nova Scotia lobster fishery in the final week of their six-month season which ended May 31. Jerry Amirault of the Lobster Processors Association says theres just nowhere to put live lobster this week. The system is clogged, he said. The result has been a huge backlog of live lobsters. Simply, that the catches have been overwhelming. Day after day of good fishing weather. Catches in some areas that have essentially doubled, he said.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 22:31:09 +0000
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