HALIFAX, NS – A promise from the three Maritime provinces to have a levy in place before the end of the year to support a marketing strategy for the region's embattled, $1-billion lobster industry is facing more delays.
The levy, first proposed in a report just over a year ago, would see lobster fishermen and the onshore side of the industry such as processors each pay one cent per pound of lobster caught to cover the cost of advertising campaigns and other strategies to promote their product, which has been plagued by slumping prices in recent years.
The fisheries ministers from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P.E.I. had promised in March to start collecting the levy before the end of the year, but they now say that won't happen until each province introduces legislation this spring.
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