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LOBSTER CRISIS: Five-year ban on lobstering possible
The New Haven Register ^ | June 11 2010 | unknown

Posted on 06/11/2010 10:20:55 AM PDT by Brugmansian

Lobstermen in southern New England are facing a possible five-year fishing ban after biologists made that recommendation to regulators, saying the drastic step is needed to save the depleted stock . . .

The vast majority of lobsters caught in the Northeast are trapped north of Cape Cod to Maine, an area that accounts for about 93 percent of the catch and has recently grappled with the opposite problem — a glut of lobsters on the market . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at newhavenregister.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: ban; glut; lobster; pricefixing
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1 posted on 06/11/2010 10:20:55 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Brugmansian

$4.99 at Market Basket in Chelsea all month. I can’t eat any more. I’m Lobstered out and it’s only June 11.


2 posted on 06/11/2010 10:22:33 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Brugmansian

Do they make ToFu lobster?


3 posted on 06/11/2010 10:23:12 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: Brugmansian

Regrettably, this is probably a good idea, and not just for lobsters...

Too bad they can’t farm lobsters like they do shrimp.


4 posted on 06/11/2010 10:23:23 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: Dallas59
Yes they do. Bruce Frederick from PETA brought some into Howie Carr. It induces vomiting better than Ipecac.
5 posted on 06/11/2010 10:26:59 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Brugmansian

Now there will be a glut in the butter market....


6 posted on 06/11/2010 10:31:49 AM PDT by Adder (Note to self: 11-2-10 Take out the Trash!!!)
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To: Brugmansian
Crab should be safe. The Bering Sea is a long way from the Gulf.
7 posted on 06/11/2010 10:33:32 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: Brugmansian
Stock up the freezer before it's too late!


8 posted on 06/11/2010 10:34:15 AM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: Brugmansian

I blame Canada!


9 posted on 06/11/2010 10:34:34 AM PDT by frithguild (I gave to Joe Wilson the day after, to Scott Brown seven days before and next to JD Hayworth.)
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To: Brugmansian

Time to swing by Stew Leonard’s...


10 posted on 06/11/2010 10:35:17 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: massgopguy

I was going to make the same comment - lobster’s cheaper than steak right now at some fish markets on the Seacoast. Having some this weekend, with beer-boiled steamers, too. ;-)


11 posted on 06/11/2010 10:35:57 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Brugmansian

A lobster glut in the market, but the stocks are depleted.

The Unseen Hand of the Market is writing on the wall as I type.

Just a minute and it will be done!

It finished - the message is BULL SH*T!


12 posted on 06/11/2010 10:38:16 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: shooter223

King crab is the ultimate. Fresh off the boat would be the best. If you go to the “Time Bandit” Facebook page it’s mostly women who are gaga over the Bearing Sea crabbers


13 posted on 06/11/2010 10:39:17 AM PDT by dennisw (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred

That picture of the lobster statue shows Panularis argus, not Homarus americanus.

Lobsters got claws, crawfish don’t.


14 posted on 06/11/2010 10:40:09 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: frithguild
I blame Canada!

Read they are responsible, in part, for the glut on the market. During the boom, they build a lot of processing plants up there. The demand for processed lobster collapsed, hence the low prices of fresh lobster now.

See how they are processing lobster now?

87,000 pound of pressure per square inch kills germs, shucks the lobster and results in a 30 day shelf life. Think Whole Foods was selling a lot of this stuff.

Crushing details here.

15 posted on 06/11/2010 10:40:15 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: massgopguy
Save some for us you pig.



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16 posted on 06/11/2010 10:40:33 AM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Brugmansian
Let's see how the lobsters fare when the oil gets drawn up the Atlantic coast.
17 posted on 06/11/2010 10:41:02 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Brugmansian

Tonight was crab, shrimp and lobster night at the chow hall...


18 posted on 06/11/2010 10:42:06 AM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: GladesGuru
How 'bout this one?


19 posted on 06/11/2010 10:42:23 AM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: GladesGuru
Lobsters got claws, crawfish don’t.

Crawfish most certainly do have claws. That's a rock lobster...very small claws...used to grab them in Florida.

20 posted on 06/11/2010 10:43:18 AM PDT by gundog (Outrage is anger taken by surprise. Nothing these people do surprises me anymore.)
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