Similar thing happened with cod, it is only for special occasions now in the poor and not-so-affluent countries where it used to be a staple food before stocks plummeted, thanks to overfishing.

Yeah, but with lobster it was less plummeting stocks than it was lobster suddenly being marketed as a delicacy at high-end clubs and whatnot. Poor people in Maine always continued eating it like normal. Lobster is still not even remotely scarce, because they're actively farmed.

I can see the lobster 🦞 pots from where I live and work, but can barely buy it here as it’s far too expensive. I’m not sure if lobster pots is the same as farm, but that’s what they do in Cornwall/the UK

Lobster is scarce everywhere I’ve ever lived. Costs a fortune and I live in a fishing town on the coast! From what I hear it’s hard for the fishermen to get as much of it as they used to, and hey, UK/global population massively increased, so lobster 🦞 expensive here. We pretty much never have it

I don't think lobster was ever as prevalent in the UK as it always has been in Maine. I'm as far away as you can get from a seashore in the US, and I can still get a freshish lobster for under 10 bucks, which is... cheaper than a burger combo now.

Wow. That’s amazing. Jealous!! If I remember right lobster 🦞 I’m was cheap in the UK a 100 years or more ago?