We’ve reached the midway point of the local lobster season.
A lobster fishing spokesperson for the area says catches and prices are both down.
Duane Boudreau, the president of the Gulf of Nova Scotia Bonafide Fishermen’s Association, says prices have dropped from $7.50/pound to $6.25/pound for markets since the start of the season, and canners are down from $7.00/pound to $5.50/pound.
Boudreau tells The Hawk the price is falling even though catches are dropping, but he doesn’t know exactly why catches are lower.
“(It) could be weather,” he says. “Unfortunately with lobster, if we had them figured out, there’d be none left- they do have a mind of their own.”
Boudreau says the weather has been good overall, but they lost a day in each of the first three weeks of the season due to high winds.
He says the season also started three days late because of high winds; those three days will be made up at the end of the season.
