“Three dollars a pound is what we’re hearing,” said Susan Beaton.
The Cape George, Antigonish County fisher was working on her new tiny home on Thursday.
It looks out over the grounds she fishes each spring from her boat The UnManned.
Water she doesn’t know if she’ll be fishing in two weeks.
“There’s a lot of unanswered questions this year,” said Beaton.
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Lobster fishermen in Cape Breton are struggling through the first two weeks of the 2020 season. …
“As a lobster fisher in the Gulf for 20 years, I have no interest in staying ashore, but I doubly have no interest in being a canary in the coal mine to test the theory that fishermen/women will fish, no matter the cost. We shouldn’t be put in the position of having to go to sea when there is no reasonable chance we can succeed. ” …
The lack of demand is plunging the price of lobster. They are selling for about $ 4.50 per pound. That is roughly half of what they were selling for one year ago. …
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