“Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.”
― From “The Art of War”, by Sun Tzu, 5th Century B.C.
Prices drop when demand decreases, supply increases, or both. It’s June 2020, and there are so many lobsters that lobstermen are turning to kelp farming. The increase in supply has caused a huge drop in lobster prices.
An article below from February 2020 is headlined "Coronavirus Sinking Lobster Prices ? Fisherman Says Demand Is All Dried Up"
Ah, the government-engineered bat virus, is there anything it can’t do?
You can tell the author is lying because of the question mark. They’re raising a queasy trial balloon, asking you if you’ll swallow its false premise. You can also tell the author is lying because they used the general assertion " fisherman says". If there were any macro-level truth to it, real, actual facts would be used, and a real, actual authority would be quoted.
The words " mystery ", " baffled " and " puzzled " are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. One of those variants is " difficult to determine ".
That’s why another story below, also from Febraury 2020, headlined “Coronavirus dampens demand for lobster”, reads “It’s difficult to determine current impact from the export data we have available.”
Marianne is raising her right hand and swearing on a stack of Bibles that lobster prices are lower because of decreased demand, but won’t back it up with any real numbers. She’s saying “the math’s just too difficult, although I’m working on it.”
I’m saying she’s lying, and that it’s because of increased supply. If there were any macro-level truth to her assertion, real, actual facts would be used. Instead, it’s a brazen lie but forward by an Illuminist shill lobster marketing director.
Here’s Marianne’s picture:
I’ve provided it so you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist in a position of negligible lobster influence looks like.
It’s not that there hasn’t been some micro-level drop in lobster demand, due to the release of the engineered bat virus, and the forcing of people to stay home regardless of whether they are afflicted with the illness, or no. It’s just that the high-supply-driven low prices predate the social engineering exercise under discussion.
January 13, 2020 - Despite early-season worries , Maine lobster industry experiences solid 2019
“I think the commissioner had noted in a meeting back in early fall of 2019 that it looked like through September we were down about 40 percent year-over-year, compared to the previous year,” Nichols said. “It looks like that trend, or decline from the previous year, it looks like it got turned around somewhat with a significant increase in landings over the last few months of the year.”
Where you can see how the Illuminist shill lobster commissioner low-balled the numbers, to turn the crank on the gasping, moth-ridden " poor mother Gaia is dying " street organ.
Can you see how they repeated " looks like ", to cement it in your subconscious, to make you affirm that the turnaround did not, in fact, take place?
You may have also noticed how they used an impactful, actual statistic on the bad-news front end, and then used a general hedge, “a significant increase in landings” on the back end, where they had to admit that the commissioner had been lying bald-facedly. As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda.
Another current article below is headlined “The Chesapeake Bay blue crab population appears to have a healthy number of spawning-age female crabs.”
Where " appears to have" implies that it does not.
In it, we learn that “This year’s survey estimates 141 million adult female crabs were conserved, which is above the long-term average of 126 million.”
Where " above the long-term average" is general. As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda.
They used that general hedge to protect against providing a far more impactful, specific statistic. And, so, I had to do the math. It’s 12% above the long-term average.
While controlling the press organs of all the nations in lock-step might at first appear an impressive achievement, it doesn’t do anything to change the underlying situation that the press is so-skillfully lying about.
The crabs are doing great, and so are the lobsters.
Jeff Miller, Brooklyn, New York, June 4, 2020
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January 13, 2020 - Despite early-season worries , Maine lobster industry experiences solid 2019
The Maine lobster industry is expected to have another year with more than 100 million pounds landed, a significant number during a year fraught with bait shortages and other challenges.
Maine Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher gave the estimate to Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. More precise numbers are typically made available in March, during the state’s annual Fishermen’s Forum.
“He still feels pretty confident that, based on what he’s heard and the conversations that he’s had with industry , that we’re looking at somewhere on the order of a 100-million-pound year,” Maine DMR Director of Communications Jeff Nichols told SeafoodSource.
(Where someone not lying would have said “It is a 100-million-pound-year.” - ed)
That number represents a sharp turnaround from number posted by the end of September 2019, when fishermen landings of less than 50 million pounds.
“I think the commissioner had noted in a meeting back in early fall of 2019 that it looked like through September we were down about 40 percent year-over-year, compared to the previous year,” Nichols said. “It l ooks like that trend, or decline from the previous year, it looks like it got turned around somewhat with a significant increase in landings over the last few months of the year.”
Febraury 8, 2020 - Ellsworth, Maine - Coronavirus dampens demand for lobster
“We are closely following developments related to the coronavirus to determine if there is any support we can provide from a marketing perspective,” Marianne LaCroix, executive director of the Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative, said Monday. “It’s difficult to determine current impact from the export data we have available.”
February 13, 2020 - Coronavirus Sinking Lobster Prices ? Fisherman Says Demand Is All Dried Up
May 20, 2020 - 2020 Blue Crab Survey: populations fine , if a little smaller than in 2019
This year’s data shows that there are less crabs in the Bay than surveyors found last year - but there was only a slight difference.
The results from the 2020 blue crab winter dredge survey are in, and the news is this: the crabs are alright.
A release from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said the annual survey is a combined effort of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
This year’s data shows that there are less crabs in the Bay than surveyors found last year - but there was only a slight difference.
Chris Moore, an ecosystem scientist from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation broke down the results well.
“Although the blue crab numbers in the Bay are down from last year, overall they continue to remain well above the numbers seen in the late 1990s and mid-2000s that raised such concern,” he said.
(The article contains no numbers. - ed)
May 21, 2020 - Female Crab Population Up In Chesapeake Bay, Juvenile Numbers Low
The 2020 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey shows the total amount of blue crab in the Chesapeake Bay in 2020 was 405 million crabs.
MARYLAND — The Chesapeake Bay blue crab population appears to have a healthy number of spawning-age female crabs, according to the 2020 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey. Maryland, Virginia and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission aims to conserve more than 70 million adult female crabs annually to ensure enough young crabs can be produced to sustain the population, a task that has now been achieved for the sixth consecutive year. This year’s survey estimates 141 million adult female crabs were conserved, which is above the long-term average of 126 million.
