Publication
Lobster Monitor
Clients, event planners, and small buyers facing a supplier's lobster price claim. Market evidence from public sources, arranged so that a price claim can be checked against it. Nothing here is a supplier's cost, and nothing here says whether a contractual adjustment is permitted.
Editions
Latest edition: Issue 1: October 2026. Each edition keeps its own permanent address; this page always points at the most recent one and never replaces an earlier one.
- 18 October 2026Issue 1: October 2026Data run 2026-10-18T144903Zpublished
- 25 September 2026Issue 0: September 2026 baselineData run 2026-09-22T201642Zpublished
Sources
Fetched by script, retained byte for byte, and listed with each edition. The full method, including comparison rules and the letter map for any original observations, is on the methodology page.
| Source | Class | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Maine DMR: lobster landings by month, county, and zone (PDF) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (annual publication of monthly pounds and value) | https://www.maine.gov/dmr/fisheries/commercial/landings-program/landings-data |
| NOAA Fisheries FOSS trade data: live lobster imports (Homarus spp.) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (monthly import value; not a retail price) | https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/foss/f?p=215:2::::: |
| U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: PPI and CPI series (public API v1) | FOOD-COST INDICATOR (index, not a lobster price) | https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/WPU02230503 |
| USDA ERS Food Price Outlook (CPI forecast table) | FOOD-COST INDICATOR (official forecast table) | https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook |