PORTLAND — New England’s summer lobster season is off to a slow start, but consumers are paying a little bit less for the critters than they were a year ago.
The annual summer boom in lobster catch has yet to arrive, lobster fishermen and distributors said. Lobster catch typically picks up in the warm months when many lobsters shed their shells and reach legal harvesting size.
So far, supply is lower than recent years, but that hasn’t translated into higher prices for consumers. The wholesale price for 1¼-pound hard shell lobsters was $7.63 per pound in early July, business publisher Urner Barry reported. The price was a little more than $8 per pound at the same time last year.
To read the rest of the story, please go to: Associated Press
