Less than a month after the start of this year’s winter season in The Gambia, many catering outfits in the country are grappling with shrimp and lobster shortage, JollofNews can report authoritatively.
Many hotels and major eateries are now paying more and getting less of the seafoods.
“Lobster and shrimp are now very hard to come by these days,” one hotelier, who does not wish to be named, informed JollofNews.
Another hotelier, who was also speaking on similar condition, said a kilo of lobster or shrimp has been trading at D500, a price he described as prohibitive.
“But the commodities are scarce. The Chinese and the Senegalese are now running the show when it comes to the seafood business,” added our informant.
The prices of pelagic, cephalopods and crustaceans have now spiralled out of the buying power of many typical Gambian households.
