Illegal chemicals were being used, and they killed all the lobsters in the pound. They all died.
The lobster pounds sometimes took more weight out of the pounds than they put in, because they fed them on a daily or weekly basis. Now, in our area, no one has pounds for lobster. The pounds have all fallen down, and they've gone to tank houses. The fellow I sell to has a tank house. Definitely his lobster is not as good a quality as pound lobster; however, he has about a 2% or 3% shrinkage, versus as high as 20% the last few years. He just couldn't afford to keep them in pounds anymore.
But we got out of pounds. Those lobsters, as I said earlier, migrate through. There is a migration of those lobsters through our area at the end of May into June, and we need that...and maybe into July. We don't know. We aren't allowed to fish in July.
I think we need to spread those seasons out more so that we have more fresh-caught stuff, so that there is no huge spike in the processing industry, and everybody in May and June can spread some of the cash into July, as long as we can land hard-shell, good-quality lobsters, in July. I don't know whether we can do that or not. I think we can in the first two weeks in July, but not much longer than that.