Lucky lobsters jamming China flights send US prices to record
US exports to China rose to 8,560 tonnes last year, up 22-fold from 2009, as Aussie catch began to shrink
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EVERY Sunday for the past seven months, about 60,000 live North American lobsters packed in wet newspapers and Styrofoam coolers make the 18-hour flight to Asia in a Korean Air Lines Co cargo plane.
The 12,000-kilometre trip from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Shanghai via South Korea has become a weekly routine this year with a surge in demand from China, where lobsters caught in North Atlantic waters are at least one-third the cost of competing supplies. As a result, exports have skyrocketed from Canada and the US, the world's top producers, and American prices are the highest ever.
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