Plant Worker Shortages Still a Chronic Problem

Everyone knows that the lobster industry is far more complex than simply setting and retrieving traps. The multi-billion-dollar Canadian lobster business is a complex web of enterprise with many imperative cogs needed to make the entire system operate smoothly, efficiently and profitably. And if one or more of these cogs is disrupted for some reason, the entire industry can suffer the effects. One such scenario played out in New Brunswick in 2016 involving a severe shortage of processing ...