Bayer Comments on Lobster Glut, Prices
Robert Bayer, director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, was interviewed for two news stories about the glut of lobsters this summer and low prices causing frustration in Maine and Canada. Bayer told the Bangor Daily News this year’s plentiful catch and resulting low prices are unprecedented and unforeseeable. He told a reporter for the southern Maine-based Current Publishing group the annual lobster shed, which normally occurs in staggered regional phases from
Massachusetts to Maine, happened early and almost simultaneously, which created an oversupply of a perishable product.
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