Talk of a European ban on importing live American lobsters might have more to do with math than with science, some seafood export specialists say.
They say that banning live North American lobsters might be a way of giving European lobstermen a greater share of a market that currently seems to favor the taste of American and Canadian lobster over the native kind.
The National Fisheries Institute has “serious concerns” that Sweden’s move “could be a non-tariff (trade) barrier,” said Gavin Gibbons, a spokesman for the Virginia-based nonprofit.
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