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You gotta see what I got for $20!!!!!!
I don't know if any of you are aware of this but the bottom has dropped out of the lobster market and currently the prices are the lowest they've been in decades. This sucks for the fishermen but it's great if you live around here and like to eat lobster! This is what $20 got me right off the boat today (they probably wouldn't have posed so nice if they knew what's in store for them!!)-
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WOW! Lickin' my lips in South Florida.
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So what happened? Overabundant harvest? I did a couple of tours along the NE coastline in the 1980s and I never got a $3 lobster even then. Nice.
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07-20-2012, 06:54 PM
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Yeah, lots of lobsters and no market thanks to the poor economy. Lobster is thought of as a "luxury" item, nobody needs them so sales suffer when money is tight. Prices have been down the last few years but nothing like this.
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I have been reading about that in the paper,
Let's work out a deal on shipping some of those down here!!
USPS Priority mail will get here in 2-3 days they should last. 
They are so much better than Florida Spiny "Lobster"
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Yuuummmm....what time is dinner.?
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Not Fair: makes me hungry. Enjoy!
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We got em down here too. They're a lot smaller though. We call em mudbugs. (crawfish) It looks like lobster are finally cheaper than crawfish. I know theyy are best cooked alive, but do they freeze well? When I was at boot camp in San Diego somebody came up with about a million of them for the mess hall. It was an all you could eat affair and all I could eat was eight of them. We also played "Seagull Bingo" while standing in line outside the mess hall, but that's another story.
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Dang! The closest we have here near the Detroit area are "Mobsters".
And yes, we have an over abundance of those too.
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Please Don't laugh!
It's supposed to be due to "global warming". The critters have disappeared from the waters off Long Island and Mass and are going great guns off Maine. Whatever! If you could figure a way to transport them without getting lost for 4-5 days.. (overnight Fed Ex) There are a lot of us southerners who like them a whole lot better than the mudbugs that Charlie raves about! And yes, with a vacuum pack, they freeze well... for about 6 months or so!
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Yeah, lots of lobsters and no market thanks to the poor economy. Lobster is thought of as a "luxury" item, nobody needs them so sales suffer when money is tight. Prices have been down the last few years but nothing like this.
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Well, I feel for the lobstermen, but in a twisted look at the cloud's silver lining, this may be good for the fish themselves in the long run. I've sometimes wondered if lobsters were going to go the way of the cod and Pacific NW salmon.
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A good friend is up in Maine with his travel trailer. He called me a few days ago and was telling me about the low prices and all the lobster they have been eating. Maybe it would be worth it to buy a ticket up there and gorge for a few days.
Seriously, it is sad for the lobstermen, their boats and gear have to be a big investment, not to mention home mortgages etc.
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It is really tough on the fishermen right now, a lot just aren't even bothering to go out, they're digging clams or doing other stuff to kill time while they wait for things to turn. The thing is, even as low as the price is you're doing them a service by buying lobsters and moving product.
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Ice 'em down, I'll be right there!
PS, found this site, best price I've seen in 20 years!
http://www.lobsterstogo.com/Live-Lob...-products.html
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Finally, something on this forum that my wife was excited about. Now she wants to do a road trip. Let see, spend $200 in gas for a $2.50 lobster. I think NOT.
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Finally, something on this forum that my wife was excited about. Now she wants to do a road trip. Let see, spend $200 in gas for a $2.50 lobster. I think NOT.
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actually, if you have liver lobster flown in, it doesn't take too many before the $200 in gas is cheap.
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Oddly enough, while I don't have anything against lobster as food, I've probably had my lifetime fill of them. I do get a lobster roll now and again when I'm "down east" but that's about it. As a kid, I used to go the the Maritimes in Canada to visit relatives each summer. The folks there were lobster and cod fishermen in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and did a little subsistance farming on the side. There was always plenty of each around. Now, I can't stand cod and I only eat a little bit of lobster.
In the days of indentured servants, there were laws in the New England colonies limiting the amount of lobster that could be fed to the indentured servants. Lobster was considered a trash "fish".
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This post was perfect timing as my brotherinlaw just came down from Maine yesterday afternoon. On the way down he stopped at the docks and got 32 of the little buggers in the 1 1/4-1 1/2 lb. size . We fired up the turkey frier and cooked them up along with some steaks,corn on the cob and other fixings.Sorry no pictures as the evidence is all gone.
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Hard to believe, but I'm over 67, and have NEVER had lobster. Sounds like I've been missing something ,because I love shrimp.
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Never had lobstah either. I sure miss Maine, though; used to go there just about every week when I was a compensated tourist in a semi. I guess I could suck it up and head that way; it's only a 4 day drive from here.
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Damn! That looks mighty good! Mmmmmm-mmm! 
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When I was stationed at NAS Moffett Field we would do "airways navigation " training flights to NAS Bruinswick,Maine. Funny, but they always seemed to coincide with lobster season.
I have a picture of my daughter on the kitchen floor with about 20 of her new friends, she named them and then helped me cook and eat them.
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I'd be careful letting anybody play with them, especially in the kitchen with all those knives around....
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Yum my favorite food. Still pricey here but I spring for some once in a while. We bought them cheap in Maine and Nova Scotia some years ago and ate like kings.
Mom was from Nova Scotia and bought some live ones for my brother's birthday dinner once. She caught us having lobster races in the backyard and scolded us boys for playing with your dinner.
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