AMHERST, N.S. – Fisheries ministers from the Maritimes have agreed to set up a panel in an effort to resolve a lobster pricing dispute that kept fishing boats tied up at wharves throughout the region for days.
Nova Scotia Fisheries Minister Sterling Belliveau said the panel will review a number of issues including allegations of price-fixing and efforts to set prices before fishermen set their traps.
"I know as a fisherman that you can literally go out and fish for a week and you do not have a sale price on your day's catch," Belliveau said Wednesday after meeting with his counterparts in Amherst, N.S.
"That is a question that the industry wants addressed."
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