Tag Archives: Stewart Lamont managing director of Tangier Lobster Company Ltd

Not your grandfather’s fishery

The harvesting is so different — bigger boats, bigger fishing effort, deeper-water fishing, so much further from shore on average, more ambitious in all respects. The boats themselves are equipped with everything under the sun to make the task more manageable.  The knowledge is much more substantial. We live in the Facebook Generation. Everything is visible and transparent, whether publishing a newspaper or determining the value of a lobster, there are absolutely no secrets.  And fish harvesters make it their business to know what a lobster is selling for in Thunder Bay on a Saturday night.  The world is smaller — direct flights from Halifax to Europe and Asia make transit time for premium quality fisheries a fraction of what was required previously. click here to read the op-ed by Stewart Lamont, managing director of Tangier Lobster Company 19:26

Sitting in the hot seat – Stewart Lamont managing director of Tangier Lobster Company Ltd

THE SOU’WESTER – Standing at the front of the room, Stewart Lamont likens himself to that guy who sits in the dunking booth – he’s the centre of attention and all you want to do is throw things at him. One thing is certain. Lamont has guts. How else would you describe a lobster dealer and shipper willing to stand before a room of lobster fishermen – a meeting he helped to organize – to answer questions about why they’re paid the price they get? continued