Boom Times in the Eastern Gulf Snow Crab Fishery

Snow crab fishermen in Atlantic Canada are receiving record prices for their catches this spring. “It certainly has reached a level we have never seen before,” said Osborne Burke, general manager at Victoria Cooperative Fisheries in Cape Breton. “If someone said to me in March the price was going to be $4.50, $5/pound, I would have said yes. If someone said it was going to be $8/pound, I would have said they were crazy.” For Cape Breton fishermen, the snow crab fishery opened ...