Maine lobster fishermen are reacting with surprise to media reports of astronomically high prices, telling The Ellsworth American boat prices in Downeast Maine vary significantly.
“I’m getting $4.35 [€3.80] plus whatever bonus at the end of the year,” a lobsterman selling new shell lobsters from Blue Hill said Sunday.
At O.W. and B.S. Look Lobster in Jonesport, “we’re paying $3.30 [€2.90] for soft shell, plus a bonus,” at year’s end, Owner Sid Look said Monday.
The Jonesport dealer is paying $5.50 (€4.90) per pound for “real” old-shell lobsters, but his fishermen are landing “very few” of those premium crustaceans.
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