I have not seen it in a primary source. My memory of the account I did
see was that it was a contract in which A was borrowing B's indentured
servants, and agreeing not to feed them lobster more than X days a week.
I've heard a similar story for sturgeon, i.e. loggers signing contracts
for eating sturgeon only three days a week. Don't recall seeing a
primary source on this story either...
I'm afraid that this exists as a tale in the Uk, too, with both salmon
and oysters.
Here both student and apprentice riots on these issues in the middle
ages are fairly well documented.

Show us the documentation, then.

I have read some primary sources on student riots in the Middle Ages
and I don't believe you.

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