Canada's pollock fishing season starts with a week, prices drop significantly, and quality varies widely.

As of last weekend, the price of hard-shell lobsters at the Nova Scotia docks in Canada was CAD 8.00/lb ($5.70/lb), which is 20% lower than the price in New Brunswick. Before the start of the season, market participants predicted that prices would decline as the supply increased. The number of registered vessels in areas 33 and 34 exceeds 1,600, with a production volume of over 24,000 tons last year. Stewart Lamont, the general manager of Tangier Lobster, a Canadian exporter, said that the quality of the first batch of lobsters from Nova Scotia is a big problem. The basis for judging whether they are high-quality hard-shell lobsters is the hemocyanin test, which evaluates the overall health and shell hardness of the lobsters through blood samples to determine their survival rate during transport. Generally, the higher the hemocyanin value and the harder the shell, the higher the survival rate during transport. Lamont said, "The test results for the first batch of lobsters were not ...