ASSOCIATED PRESS • June 8, 2021
Summer weather has arrived, and New England tourists are hungry for a lobster roll or a whole cooked lobster — but they’re going to have to pay up. Lobster is more expensive than usual this season due to a limited supply, high demand and the reopening of the economy as the nation moves past the coronavirus pandemic. Some Maine stores charged $17 or $18 per pound for live lobster in May, about twice the price of a year ago. Maine fishermen brought more than 96 million pounds of lobsters to the docks in 2020, and while that was the lowest total since 2010, it was still much more than they typically caught in the 1990s.