New Brunswick's lobster industry is drawing closer to China as the apetite for the premium Canadian seafood grows in that country. He doesn't process lobster because customers in China, he said, want live Canadian lobsters. Trade war helpExports of live Canadian lobster to China have climbed 50 per cent over the past year. Song said Canadian lobsters have a great reputation in there which can only mean good things in future for the industry here. The U.S. remains the number one market for Canadian Lobster, with 22 million kilograms in sales in the first 11 months of last year.

Source: CBC News January 22, 2019 09:00 UTC