Lobster fishers raise alarm about low Canadian prices, some giving up on season

May 2, 2025 Canada

Lobster fishers around Atlantic Canada are speaking out about this year’s prices, with some saying it’s unfairly low this season. Prices haven’t officially been announced yet, but some fishers are saying they’ve heard it could be “dollars” lower than 2024’s figures. “I would say the prices have never been lower than this, when you recognize the extreme upswing in costs to harvest lobster,” said Colin Sproul with the Bay of Fundy Inshore Fishermen’s Association. “I hear reports of our membership in southwest Nova Scotia giving up on the season and landing their traps, because they can’t fish at the prices that are being offered to them.” Video, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 06:52

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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