Thats only $3 a pound, Guess that other $9 a pound they add at the store is due to evil capitalists.
I lived on Cape Cod one summer when there was a glut. We bought the smallest (and tastiest) ones super fresh for two bucks a pound on the docks. It cost us hardly any more than a meal at McDonalds. Actually got sick of it and didn’t touch lobster for a good three or four years after that.
I think this boom has nothing to do with global warming as the shriekers would have you believe. Instead, it is a delayed effect of the collapse of the cod fishery. Cod eat trillions of young lobster every year, or used to until they were overfished to commercial extinction. As the fishery recovers, which it will, the lobster harvest will fall precipitously, and the global warmers will shriek even louder. Mark my words.
Under communism they rot on the docks. It will be better when we get rid of the evil capitalists. Everything will be fair outside of the northeast and none of us will get any.
No, $3 is about right. Maybe $4.50. It’s transportation and whatnot, I guess. Shelled Maine shrimp, really really tiny but really good, are going for $4, and that’s down from $6. With the shells on, it’s like $1.25 a pound.