Responding to a supply glut, lobster buyers are doing whatever they can to keep thousands of lobsters alive until prices improve.
Many have dropped prices and imposed boat quotas on hundreds of Nova Scotia lobster fishermen from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Eastern Shore.
Louisbourg Seafood hopes to keep more than 1,000 crates of lobsters alive long enough to find a buyer.
Effective Friday, Eastern Shore fishermen were told buyers will take no more than 500 pounds (227 kilograms) per day.
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