General Discussion

The lobster fishers want to be paid for their catch, enough to cover their time as well as the cost of maintaining their boats and pots (and insurance, and maybe something set aside for a rainy day). The stores selling the lobster have their own expenses, as do the restaurants who do the preparation and serving. All these costs add up. Plus, the population has gone up a lot since I was able to get a lobster dinner in NYS for $5, and a lot of those people want lobster, too.

East Coast lobsters are very expensive here on the Left Coast (unless you like them frozen), but prices of local Dungeness crabs have gone up to $15/lb, when you can find them - we've had crab seasons recently that either had low catches or were outright cancelled. Supply and demand: the planet's population keeps going up, and seafood catches can't match it.