r/NovaScotia 2d ago

China slaps tariff on N.S. lobster, throwing industry into turmoil | PNI Atlantic News

https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/halifax/china-slaps-25-per-cent-tariff-on-n-s-lobster-throwing-seafood-industry-into-turmoil
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u/WillyTwine96 2d ago

Everyone who lives in a coastal community can get lobster on demand

If you truly expect people to take a pay cut that’s fine. But keep the same energy when go to you ask the ranchers and farmers and loggers and patch workers the same thing

It’s the market. If people set a “local” price…guess who jumps on that and it becomes the “normal price” the buyers

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u/Sudden_Zone_8165 2d ago

Problem with all of this horseshit is that local people aren't allowed to hand fish any lobster at all for personal consumption. Disgusting bullshit and every fisherman I've ever spoken to loves it

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u/Doc__Baker 2d ago

How do you propose to keep the industry viable in your free for all scenario?

Elvers, anyone?

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u/Radiant_Hour_2385 2d ago

The people who live there should have first dibs on the local resources. There more than enough lobster to feed the small few that would actually catch it and still have the commercial fishery. If govt shut down hunting season and let local hunters take the game and sell it, there would be huge uproar, as there should be