Cameron has a good system for keeping the catch fresh while being transported across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe live lobsters are packed with a wet paper towel over them and icepacks for temperature control,” Cameron said. \u201cThey need wet paper towel because they need dampness in the air in order to breathe. They can stay out of water for a long time. When kept cold and damp they are perfectly good for a couple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also gets cooked lobster from the family operation in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy dad boils them in the Bay of Fundy sea water and packs the meat in Styrofoam boxes with ice packs,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s little time between the lobster leaving the ocean to when they are purchased. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy dad is literally pulling them out of the water the day before and they get here the next morning,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cThe only issue is if there\u2019s a delay with West Jet Cargo where it doesn\u2019t get on the plane from Calgary the next morning. In that case we\u2019d message everyone to let them know, but the lobster will still be good for a few days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cameron grew up in Kentville, Nova Scotia and moved with his family to Kelowna when he was 12. He spent the winters attending school and playing hockey, and the summers in Nova Scotia where his parents have a seasonal seafood restaurant and lobster exporting business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Half-way through a degree in finances at Arizona State University, this spring his finance internship was dropped, so he returned to Kelowna for the summer to amp up his lobster selling business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019d done it sporadically in previous summers and in 2023 I sold 120 lobsters in an hour out of the Canadian Tire parking lot in Penticton,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s when I realized how much demand there was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This past Canada Day, Cameron\u2019s dad got up in the wee hours in Nova Scotia to cook and pack 700 lb. of lobster. It was shipped out and arrived the next day. Cameron loaded it into his van and sold it at four different locations within hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At a farmers\u2019 market in Canoe this month, he sold 60 lb. of lobster in less than an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are 41 lobster harvesting areas in five provinces in Atlantic Canada with lobster sold live and in hundreds of processed forms to retailers around the world, according to the Lobster Council of Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt its peak, my dad\u2019s export plant was selling two million pounds of lobster worldwide, mostly to South Korea and Tokyo,\u201d Cameron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Processing plants are governed by the federal government to meet strict quality standards. The industry is sustained through a limited number of traps, staggered fishing season and the protection of small lobsters and egg-bearing females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In BC, there are numerous other shellfish options that are locally farmed and harvested including oysters, scallops, mussels and clams. Shellfish farming has been a part of BC\u2019s history for more than a century, with the province currently producing almost half of the oysters in the country, according to the BC Shellfish Growers Association<\/a>. BC farmed oysters are famous at oyster bars around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The geoduck clam is the largest, burrowing natural clam that lives in Alaska, BC and Washington state, and has been farmed in BC since the mid 1990s, while Manila clams were accidentally introduced from Japan in the 1930s, and have been farmed here since 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pacific oyster also originated in Japan and is now the most widely farmed species in the province. There are also blue mussels, gallo mussels and Japanese scallops produced here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If it\u2019s fresh lobster you are after The Lobster Guy in Kelowna has you covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have two years to finish my finance degree strong and then I\u2019ll be working full time selling lobster in Kelowna,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cEvery shipment I bring in is getting bigger as demand grows and I want to keep supplying fresh stock at affordable prices.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"|\"](\"https:\/\/infonews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/727465570_1611790339918390_5411177092750510050_n-1.jpg?w=1024\" "\\"|\\"")