{"id":22875,"date":"2025-07-21T13:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=22875"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:31:40","slug":"main-lobster-season-in-canada-culminates-on-maximum-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/07\/21\/main-lobster-season-in-canada-culminates-on-maximum-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Main lobster season in Canada culminates on maximum pricing\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spring lobstering<\/u><\/a>\u00a0in Atlantic Canada ended July 18, 2025, with\u00a0lobster prices<\/u><\/a>\u00a025% above those at the start of the main season.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding fishers’ prices, the season began at C$10.39 ($7.50) a pound on April 20 and ended at C$12.83 ($9.38) on July 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In-between, weekly rate fixtures experienced a consecutive downward trend from the weeks starting April 27 through June 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to data by the Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW<\/u><\/a>), rates revamped from June 15 onward at C$9.57 ($7.03).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For lobstermen in Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, northeast Canada, the season reportedly brought nothing to \u201ccomplain about<\/u><\/a>.\u201d This according to skipper Sarah Forgeron, briefing the Cape Breton Post on July 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forgeron added that prices never bounced below C$8 ($5.83) a pound throughout the season, unlike in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only downside is that the spring\/early summer season ended all too soon for Lobster Fishing Area (LFA) 27, in 9 weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LFA 27 constitutes the cape\u2019s eastern coast and the bulk of the strait separating Cape Breton from Newfoundland, and partially the Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While market offers ended on a high note in all of Canada, landings however were not as knife-edged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The volume may have declined by up to 15% <\/u><\/a>from that of mid-summer 2024, year-on-year (y-o-y). This is versus spring 2024\u2019s 44,376.035 tonnes<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, some vessels in Cape Breton still managed to land 1,000 pounds of lobster daily, which diminished to 400 pounds in the final weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does winter fisheries in December through January hold for fishermen after the main lobster season has ended? The below statistics offer a prelude with an account of the spring\u2019s historical prices and then year-round landings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada Main Lobster Season Prices and Annual Landings <\/strong>Statistics <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The late April-late July lobstering is Canada\u2019s biggest lobster season by landing volumes. May alone averages\u00a025,490 tonnes<\/u><\/a>, versus runner-up December at 18,810 tonnes, as of 2024. \u00a0Given its largesse, the spring-summer season is price-sensitive. The Fish, Food And Allied Workers (FFAW) negotiates prices and sets minimum landing rates each week. The highest price that the FFAW set between 2023 and 2024 was April 2023’s\u00a0C$19.02<\/u><\/a>\u00a0($14.10) a pound (lb). However, as the data below shows, the final weeks normally post higher prices than middle weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ho<\/strong>w different were FFAW\u2019s final week lobster prices between 2023 and 2025?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025\u2019s final lobster price by the FFAW (on July 12) was C$12.83 ($9.38)\/lb, from a C$10.39 ($7.50) starter. \u00a0In\u00a02024, the July 7-13 rate was\u00a0C$11.42\u00a0<\/u><\/a>($8.38), having started at C$12.65 ($9.25)\/lb on April 21. A year earlier, the price on July 9 hit C$10.89 ($8.25) while the April 16 opener had clocked C$19.02 ($14.10)\/lb.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have lobster landings in Canada changed much in recent years ending 2023<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada\u2019s lobster catches remained elevated between 2014 and 2023 and peaked in 2021. The table below, courtesy Seafood Data Search<\/u><\/a>, shows a five-year tally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/strong><\/td>Lobster Landings [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>94,679<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>95,828<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>106,395<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>92,403<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>99,654<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Fig.\u00a0Annual lobster landings in Canada, 2019-23 \u00a0[rounded up to the nearest digit point]<\/em>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring lobstering\u00a0in Atlantic Canada ended July 18, 2025, with\u00a0lobster prices\u00a025% above those at the start of the main season.\u00a0 Regarding fishers’ prices, the season began at C$10.39 ($7.50) a pound on April 20 and ended at C$12.83 ($9.38) on July 12. 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