New Process May Allow Shipping Fresh Lobster To Alberta – Mackinley

The provincial and federal governments are close to a big announcement that will see a new market created for P.E.I. lobster.

It means more fresh lobster will be getting shipped off-Island.

Responding to a question from Opposition Leader Steven Myers in the P.E.I. legislature on Tuesday, Fisheries Minister Ron MacKinley says negotiations are ongoing with Royal Star in Tignish to pasteurize lobster and ship it to Alberta-based Sysco Canada, one of the biggest marketing and distributing food companies in the world.

“We’re negotiating with Royal Star right now . . . we’ve also approached Sysco. We’ve got lawyers working on a patent which is something we’ve got to do because we’re doing it in the shell, not out of the shell with bags of meat,’’ MacKinley said after question period.

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