date:Dec 28, 2012
o inflate market prices for lobsters as supply suffered.
We haven't had one of these sorts of years for quite a few years now, probably 20-odd years, Mr Newby said.
The Department of Fisheries said last week it was looking into whether a marine heatwave in the summer of 2010-11 and elevated sea temperatures in recent years had affected the rock lobster fishery, WA's most lucrative.
Fisheries director-general Stuart Smith said there appeared to be a link between the lower numbers of baby lobst