When I lived out east years ago, one of the joys was the low cost and high availability of fresh fish and lobster. A boiled dinner of lobster, corn and mussels was easy to make and delicious.
A NYT article today is blaming the pandemic for the low cost of lobster and says many American supermarkets are selling below six piasters a pound. Is this true? I haven’t seen prices like that in Canada, and we export a lot of crustacean.
I haven’t seen huge cuts. The local lobstermen here in the RI area just cut production as the price drops. Go up to NH and ME and you’ll find low cost lobsters all the time, haven’t heard about any changes there so far.
I was at the Chinese market here in Chicago last week, and live lobsters were $10.99/lb.
Piasters?
Upstate NY had them for $5.77/lb on a supermarket sale, the week before they were also around that on special, I believe $5.99/lb.
I was going to say clams. But that might have been shellfish.
But just a little shellfish.
That is pretty low, I’d have expected to see around $6.99 a pound for summer specials, I think I saw $7.99 advertised for a sale, but it’s been steadily between $9.99 and $11.99 at the retail outlets, at least what I’ve seen.
$5.99 for 1 - 1.25 lb-ers on sale in suburban Boston supermarket. Non-sale price is usually $7.99 or higher.
In past years when there’s an occasional summer glut, it’s been $4.99 and rarely, $3.99.
$5.99 is my limit.
About the only time I’ve felt sorry (well, almost) for Martha Stewart, was when someone recently harangued her for posting on social media about occasionally having family cookouts with lobsters.
Seems that was unforgiveably elitist in a time of plague. 
There seem to be a lot of crabs on the Internet. Canadian lobster here goes for between 8.99 and 14.99 a pound depending on the prestige of the grocery store.
I was a resident in Lobstertown, and you could buy them off the boat for three clams. I miss those days.
Is the person new to Martha Stewart? Her entire schtick is elitist; she lives on a multi-acre (153 acres, per a Google search) estate in Bedford, New York (after moving there from Westport, Connecticut), with acres of gardens tended by professionals, greenhouses and stables for the horses. And even when she was in Westport, before she was famous, she lived on something like five acres, kept bees, and gardened extensively.