date:Dec 18, 2012
ustry for 16 years.
Several weeks into the six-month lobster season have yielded a record haul of supply, flooding the market with millions more pounds than usual.
Earlier this month, lobster buyers banded together to ask Fisheries and Oceans Canada to temporarily close southwestern Nova Scotias lobster season for a 72-hour period.
The abundance of supply has caused prices to drop to $3 a pound.
Deveau said while volumes are up, the quality of the catch is not as good as in previous years, m