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Live lobster prices continue free-fall as more Canadian fisheries open

'China, which wanted every lobster in the sea last week, did not even know our names this week' -- Stewart Lamont, Tangier Lobster

By Jason Huffman | May 8, 2023 17:00 BST
A Canadian lobster. Photograph courtesy of Tangier Lobster, in Nova Scotia.
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Wholesale prices are continuing to plummet for live North American lobster (Homarus americanus) as more lobster fishing areas (LFAs) open up across Atlantic Canada, but frozen tail rates are still inching up [...]

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