date:Dec 20, 2012
ary when things start to slow down, said Marc Surette, executive director of the Nova Scotia Fish Packers Association.
Surette said record landings combined with the economic downturn in Europe and the United States have made the lobster season, which opened in southwestern Nova Scotia late last month, particularly difficult.
Packing plants have been dealing with catches that are up 25 to 30 per cent from last year, he added.
In an industry thats been traditionally status quo year after year