Becca... $9.99 a pound here. Somebody is getting screwed.
Charley... Maine's conservation efforts go much further than that from what I have heard. Well done say I! But, the glut of lobsters now is from the warm winter and spring... everything was early this year all along the Atlantic Coast. EXCEPT our lobster season because IT goes by the calendar and not by the lobster.
As far as limiting the number of pots, there is still nolimit as to the number of lobsters per pot per day, right? or wrong?