Kendall,
I'm not in any way trying to make excuses but the real problem is the low price that you mention. New Brunswick fishermen are protesting the Maine lobster because it is being sold to the processing plants for $2.oo a pound. They say that they can not equip and maintain a boat to compete for that price. Someone is making a killing on this but it is neither Maine or New Brunswick fishermen. The retail price for live lobster here is about $9.00 a pound so the question is what happens to the other $7.00? Frustration indeed, but fishermen are being cheated on the price on both sides of the border! I suspect that it was the greedy buyers or processing companies and not the fishermen who suffered the lost truckload. Now if they had just given that truckload to us I'm sure that between the two of us we could have disposed of it in a much friendlier fashion! I'll even bring the beer and I'm sure thgt gnu would be willing to help!