In Riverport on Nova Scotia’s south shore, lobster fisherman Jason Conrad remembers when the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020 and the price of lobster plummeted to $4 a pound — below what it cost him to catch a lobster.
“A lot of days, I went fishing to just make sure my deckhand got a paycheque, and I lost money,” Conrad said aboard his boat, Family Tradition 07.
The pandemic is still with us, but low prices in the seafood sector are long gone as housebound consumers spend on little luxuries.
Last month, Conrad was getting over $14 a pound — a sign
