Are there lobster in the pacific ocean

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But for most Americans, with the exception of scuba divers like Parfitt, California spiny lobster is a delicious delicacy that won't end up at the average dinner table. It is estimated that up to 95 percent of all commercially caught lobster is shipped to China. In California they are trucked to Los Angeles, where they are packaged up, and flown straight east. In Mexico, that percentage is estimated to be up to 99 percent. According to Masury, seafood buyers in China initially preferred the Australian spiny lobster.

The Chinese, she says, aren't privy to clawed crustaceans and tend to prefer spiny ones. However, the fisheries in Australia could not keep up with Chinese demand and by the early s, the California lobster started to be transported to China in large numbers to meet sales. The increased demand from China has raised prices of the California spiny lobster to the point where most Americans consumers are not willing to pay for it.

Rudie estimates that 95 percent of his lobsters are currently shipped to China. He'll personally deliver some of them to the Los Angeles International Airport, into the hands of a buyer, who will put a box of crustaceans directly on a freight flight to China.

Rudie says demand from Asia started about two decades ago, and demand from China following ten years after that.