The Asian Reporter
Pacific Northwest News q Volume 28 Number 23 q December 3, 2018 q www.asianreporter.com
We’ll take your lobsters, eh?
Canadian imports from U.S. soar
1,000+ pieces of
plastic found in whale
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“Let’s Go Luna!” takes
kids on global tour
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SHELL GAME. In this September 5, 2018 file photo, a lobster walks over the top of a lobster trap off the coast of Biddeford, Maine. Heavy demand from Canada is
buoying the American lobster industry as both countries head into the busy holiday export season. It’s a positive sign for U.S. seafood dealers and fishermen even as the
industry struggles with Chinese tariffs. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
By Patrick Whittle
The Associated Press
ORTLAND, Maine — Trade hostility from across the
ocean was supposed to take a snip out of the U.S. lobster
business, but the industry is getting a lifeline from its
northerly neighbor.
Heavy demand from Canada is buoying the American lobster
industry as both countries head into the busy holiday export
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season. It’s a positive sign for U.S. seafood dealers and fishermen
even as the industry struggles with Chinese tariffs.
China emerged as a major consumer of American lobster in
recent years, but the country slapped heavy tariffs on American
lobster exports in July. Industry watchers forecast the move as a
potential calamity for U.S. seafood, but Canada has boosted the
value of its lobster imports from America by more than a third so
far this year.
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