{"id":94658,"date":"2017-03-19T22:45:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T02:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=94658"},"modified":"2017-03-19T22:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T02:45:47","slug":"lobster-crazy-china-sets-record-for-us-crustacean-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/19\/lobster-crazy-china-sets-record-for-us-crustacean-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobster crazy China sets record for US crustacean imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_94659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94659\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-79.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94659\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-79.png\" alt=\"American lobster was almost unheard of in China until 2010, when the value of imports grew 250 per cent to about $7.4 million. (Photo: Tatiana Vdb\/ Flickr)\" width=\"649\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-79.png 649w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-79-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American lobster was almost unheard of in China until 2010, when the value of imports grew 250 per cent to about $7.4 million. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kit4na\">Tatiana Vdb\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ROCKPORT, Maine \u2013The expanding market for lobsters in China is continuing to grow, with the country setting a new record for the value of its imports of the crustaceans from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>American lobster was almost unheard of in China until 2010, when the value of imports grew 250 per cent to about $7.4 million. Last year, China imported more than $108 million in lobsters from America, surpassing the previous high of about $90.2 million in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese importers took in more than 14 million pounds of lobsters last year, which was also a record. The previous high was about 13.1 million pounds in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The uptick came in a record year for lobster catch in Maine. Atlantic Canada also has a lobster fishery and sends the same species to China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKPORT, Maine \u2013The expanding market for lobsters in China is continuing to grow, with the country setting a new record &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":94659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[420,16812,16813],"class_list":["post-94658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle","tag-china","tag-lobster","tag-us-crustacean-imports","mauthors-patrick-whittle","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}