Lobster Price Debate Gets Personal
May 14, 2014 | 1 min to read
The controversy over low lobster prices boiled over on the floor of the Legislature Tuesday with a shouting match between P.E.I. Fisheries Minister Ron MacKinley and fisheries critic Colin Lavie.
Lobster prices on P.E.I. are running about $4 a pound, a little lower than prices in Nova Scotia, and lower than what it costs to fish them, some are saying.
"Fishermen just want fairness," Lavie said, as he started his line of questioning.
"That's all they want. If they're getting a higher price in Nova Scotia for the same lobster, same size, same waters, [they] just want to be fair."
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