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Maybe the lobster price drops are now being passed on to the general public?
LOBSTER (MIN 350G) COOKED, CLEANED AND CUT IN HALF
$62.83 per kg usually $114.25 per kg
Product of Tristan Island
[NSW, ACT] Cooked Lobster (Min 350G) $21.99 ea + Delivery (Free over $100 Spend) @ Harris Farm
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Inflated heavily by overseas markets normally
$45-50 wouldn't be untypical usually, with $60-100 at peak times (Christmas/Easter/etc)
About $60 in China last year or about $40-$45 in Australia and $20 CAD all you can eat in Canada (Halifax).
Link to the all you can eat Lobster in Canada?
You can google "all you can eat lobster Halifax", the results should come up with all the touristy eateries near the wharf, not sure how much they are. My sister lives in Halifax, I was going over there this June but COVID-19 puts a stop to that plan. The locals know where to get lobster cheaper. If you are serious, I will find out and let you know.
I knew a guy who had an "all you can eat" seafood meal. When he finished, he went out looking for another all you can eat restaurant. Then, when he couldn't find one, he went fishing. Do these sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat?
@kahn: Lobsters in the US are like 30-40$ in the mid priced restaurants. They are not over priced as they are down here.
@buckster: I am talking a couple of years ago when i was there. It was around $30USD so around $40 AUD. Thats at a restaurant, and they were large. But US especially east coast has been famous for how cheap their lobsters are as they have so much of them. Down here we would have so much of them, if we didnt sell everything overseas and forget about the locals. Dont forget i am talking about actual restaurants with the food cooked and served.
I remember working on the east coast of Canada a long time ago in the Bay of Fundy and the Maccas had a lobster meal.
I just bought some last week at Harris Farm for $29.99
Maybe add NSW only?
if you actually google it there is a smaller island under it called "inaccessible island"
a smaller island under it called "inaccessible island"
It has 2 restaurants and a hotel.
Not many reviews though…
how are you suppose to get to it if its inaccessible though hmm
Hahahaha
Can't sell to China, sells here
Now China starts to ease up, there is negotiation to ship seafood to China and bring back medical supply, so enjoy your lobsters while they are still cheap.
hahahaha, we give you one lobster, you give 3 mask
Just call up Japan and offer tuna, problem solved
What's wrong with Aussie lobsters that we have to import from Tristan Island?
All shipped to China
I have a family member in the crayfish industry, China have just recently opened up to accept imported cray again but the prices are “low”.
The problem is that the industry in Tasmania runs on a quota system of how much you can catch with your license. Many fishermen don’t actually own the license but simply lease all or part of a quota from a license holder as they are no longer issued for many years and astronomically priced to buy from someone else, think millions. This can easily cost a fisherman several hundred thousand a year and is incredibly easy money for license holder to say the least.
Basically I think my he needs to get somewhere around $60-$70 a kilo before he even breaks even. It’s no use to him using up his leased quota when prices are so low as to be not profitable. Better to save his quota and not fish until prices are higher.
Thanks for the detailed info!
Are these license auctioned regularly?
@Cozzie: I'm guessing they rarely come up for sale as they are bascically a license to print money for the owner unless they were wanting to cash out quickly due to age or illness, debt etc. However I think that quota can be bought and sold and this is more the likely scenario for sales/auctions.
I'm reasonably sure the license holder pays a yearly fee to keep it active, although it is somewhere comparatively tiny to what they can sell/lease the quota for, the fee is around the $10000 a year mark if I remember correctly (dont quote me on that one). Then they are able to charge fishermen for the quota if they dont want to fish themselves.
There are only just over 300 commercial cray fishing licenses in Tasmania, and about 10500 units of quota that can be leased or perhaps bought and sold.
Not sure how this works in other states of Australia, but this is for the highly sought after Tasmanian Rock Lobsters.
In my opinion it is really quite an unfair situation and means that fishermen that got into the game in perhaps the 70's or early 80's have a massive advantage over those that came to the industry later on. You can't just go and apply / pay for a new license as they arent being issued.
So the majority of cray fishermen are not getting rich from fishing, unless they own a license. Its often more comfortable to just lease out your license quota to another fisherman and have zero risk, rather than fish yourself.
Have a read of http://www.tasrocklobster.com/trlfa/?c=21
@Gravy: I recall seeing a docu a while back about the W.A lobster industry which was hell intersting as people built these floating cities and are very serious about their licenses (and passing it on to kids) and territories.
I THINK it was this : http://www.artemisfilms.com/productions/lobster-tales
This also reminds me of the licenses they mention on "deadliest catch" and Taxi plates.
@ickyboo: Yeah, any licensing system which issues finite licenses and allows non operational entities to onsell the rights without using the license themselves is somewhat unfair. My personal opinion is use it or lose it, and it then goes back into the pool of licenses available for others to apply for perhaps via a lottery system to make it fair.
Even more impressive, they have a Starbucks
I can’t see an airstrip and it’s very far from the mainland Africa. I wonder how long the boat trip is.
6 days from South Africa according to wikipedia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha
We should thank the OP for this awesome Geography lesson… Shame it's not much of a bargain though…
Might be a good idea to move there if you are American right now :D
Better off buying takew-away from a Chinese restaurants, the going rate is $80KG in Sydney
Yes, I got a live one and cooked at home last weekend. It is a lot fresher and juicer. Also, it was from Australia as well, which is the most important consideration now.
I'm a (profanity) but I could never kill a live lobster. I'd be more likely to keep it as a pet.
Pinchy!!!
This kills the crab.
Hmmm… Now you have me thinking.. I've always wanted a aquarium.. Hmm…. How do I get this pass the wife? Do what Homer did?
which ones in particular?
Is it actually only $80kg now?
You are lucky. Normal price in Chinese restaurants is about $250 KG
Anyone can recommend a place to purchase from in Melbourne? Looking for a place that can do home delivery too.
Is this in all stores?
I think it's only for deliveries. I couldn't see it at that price at my local Harris Farm.
Shipping killed it…
Cooking wasn't enough?
Ordered 5! TY
What recipes do you guys use for lobsters?
Beer?
[NSW, ACT]…@ Harris Farm
Is there a Harris farm in ACT which I'm not aware of?
Delivery
so we can just go to the harris farm in sydney and they will have the lobsters in local stock?
Cooked, Cleaned and Cut in Half…
Hope I don't get the upper half. LoL
Woolies selling Australian grown ones for $29.00
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/34321/wool…Unavailable in every store near me (South Sydney)
Mr Pinchy :(.
RIP
This is beyond sad. People who are very excited about this deal need to see how these beautiful creatures are taken out of the ocean (or bred in crammed tanks), terrorised, mutilated and killed.
If it isn't good for your eyes, how it can be good for your body?Ariel, is that you ?
How’s a lobster beautiful? They are the ugliest thing I’ve even seen. And damn delicious.
i've seen them always from tristan island.. why tristan island?
Most of Australia's production is flown straight to China. Yay, more of our tax $ being thrown away. We should just pay the freight costs to import PPE, without any sweetheart deals or an industry that normally ignores locals.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-01/china-lobster-market-…
"At this stage I just think it's more important that we get product trickling into China, and rather than rush it in there, 30 tonnes a week gets the wheels turning again," Mr Thompson said.
You are implying they use tax money to fly lobsters into China?
Who knows just now but in the current climate, I wouldn't put it past an industry lobby to try for this.
Lost tax dollars in the sense that the exporters are making less (price, volume sales) and therefore paying less company tax, perhaps.
Good for bringing to wildy
And industry don't see what's wrong when a key product (whether it's food or education) is only sustainable economically if a bulk of it is sent overseas at sky high prices instead of being available to locals.
Then for some of these companies anyway rolling in dough for ages seem to have nothing left for a rainy day and come crying to the Govt, and local Aussies for money (except for milk, notice how it's donate or assist farmers financially, not "hey buy our beef product!")
/end rant
Yeah, that's the huge conspiracy taking place in the USA right now with the stimulus package where trillions are going to large banks and corporations where Trump vetoed some oversight provisions. Corporate profits have been stashed away in off-shore tax havens and used to purchase their own stock and now these tax-dodgers need the government's help. The stimulus package was voted in 96-0 so there is no resistance among the ruling elite.
Greatest country on earth! If you are rich.
Or LPG to the extent that it is cheaper to import our gas back.
From the thumbnail I thought this was for a plush lobster toy. Now I'm disappointed :(
How much is it normally?