Responding to a supply glut, lobster buyers have dropped prices and imposed boat quotas on hundreds of Nova Scotia lobster fishermen from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Eastern Shore.
"This is unheard of," says Nellie Baker Stevens, of the Eastern Shore Protective Fishermen's Association, speaking about the boat quotas.
Effective Friday, the 220 lobster fishermen who belong to the organization have been told buyers will take no more than 500 pounds (227 kilograms) per day.
Further east in Guysborough County, 400 other fishermen have a 600-pound (272-kilogram) limit. There are also quotas in the Gulf.
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