The situation was that the price was declining. The season was drawing close to its normal end, but the fishermen ended it even sooner due to the fact that the price was in a serious low state.
Fishermen normally get a large demand in Europe and other places for lobster because of the Christmas season. Buyers told the fishermen that it didn't look like that would happen. The demand was there, but the price structure wasn't going to be able to handle a large price. I talked to fishermen from Southwest Nova after that and they felt the buyers had duped them a little, because after they cleaned out their pounds the price did go up.
The reason it went up was that there was a certain amount of steady supply. The whole world will take a certain amount on a steady basis, but when there's a glut situation, or if people are holding a lot of fish and they move that fish quickly, it is inclined to drop the price. When they moved all their fish, the price was low. Then all of a sudden there was no inventory, as nobody was fishing because winter was coming, and the price went up. The fishermen only got three and a quarter a pound, by the way, and that was for market lobsters.