Canadians Fear Air Cargo Shortage

Canadian seafood producers are fearful that decreased flights could affect cargo shipments of seafood going to Europe in the upcoming holiday season.

"It's going to be a challenge to find air cargo capability to get lobster to our overseas markets," Denny Morrow of the Nova Scotia Fish Packers Association told the Times & Transcript in New Brunswick.

Live lobster dealers may be forced to truck live lobster to U.S. airports and Central Canada, said Morrow. Trucking product long distances prior to air shipments means lobsters are out of the water longer and possibly can increase mortality.

December usually brings a glut of lobster to the market after November's lobstering off Grand Manan Island and the southeastern shore of New Brunswick, as well as off southwestern Nova Scotia later this month.

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