Lobster Industry

• ‘Our lobsters are gold plated now’: Atlantic Canada lobster exports, prices soar

  Canadian lobster exports reached a staggering $3.26 billion last year, beating the previous record of $2.59 billion, set in 2019, by more than 25 per cent.

  Economy

  Apr 10, 2022
  
• N.S. sends ‘test’ lobster shipment to China after month with no market

  Premier Stephen McNeil says a flight with 67 tonnes of live lobster left for China on Saturday.

  Economy

  Mar 10, 2020
  
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• Canadian lobster exports to China soar as U.S. sales plunge amid tariffs

  China is awash in Canadian lobsters as exports from the East Coast soar to fill the gap left by Beijing's retaliatory tariffs against the U.S.

  Economy

  Aug 26, 2019
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• U.S. lobster exports to China take steep dive as Canadian business booms

  In Canada, exports to China through June were already approaching 33 million pounds, which is nearly as much as all of 2018.

  Canada

  Aug 25, 2019
• Canadian, U.S. lobstermen to meet in Maine for annual lobster summit

  The yearly event alternates between the U.S. and Canada and brings together lobstermen, dealers, processors, scientists and others from both countries.

  Canada

  Mar 17, 2019
• How Donald Trump helped boost Nova Scotia’s lucrative lobster industry

  Demand from Canada's largest export market, the United States, remains strong, thanks to a healthy U.S. economy, a weak Canadian dollar and from President Donald Trump's ongoing trade war with China.

  Economy

  Nov 29, 2018
• U.S. lawmakers want proof Canada is trying to save right whales

  A group of Democratic senators says the U.S. should audit the job Canada is doing to protect endangered whales, but the Canadian government and some U.S. scientists are reacting coolly to the idea.

  Canada

  May 1, 2018
• Ottawa will enforce new lobster fishing measures along N.B. coast to protect right whales

  The decision comes after 18 North Atlantic right whales were killed in Canadian and U.S. waters last year.

  Environment

  Apr 24, 2018
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• N.S. lobster boats head out of port to set traps in lucrative fishery

  The so-called 'dumping day' was delayed by a day due to high winds.

  Canada

  Nov 28, 2017
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• Nova Scotia man charged with threatening Indigenous fishermen

  It's alleged the threats happened online. Police are still searching for another man.

  Canada

  Sep 27, 2017