$9 shore price in southwestern Nova Scotia creates lobster season ‘bottleneck’
SHELBURNE, NS – An unprecedented shore price of $9 in December for lobsters has created a bottleneck in the supply chain, says a Shelburne County buyer.
“We created a bottleneck,” said owner of Cotter’s Ocean Products in Lockeport, Mike Cotter. “The fishermen have a lot of inventory, the buyers have a lot of inventory, product didn’t move like it usually does in the month of December, so we put it away, tubed it, trayed it. There’s a lot of Chinese buyers in Nova Scotia.They’ve got inventory. They know we’ve got inventory. They are making us sweat and we are sweating believe me.”
So far this season the Chinese market, “hasn’t...
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