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
Chicago
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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