Lobstering Way Of Life

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Lobstering Way Of Life

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Elizabeth Dow

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Photograph - Photographs

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I always love seeing lobstering equipment resting on a dock about ready to go out into the ocean to provide our hardworking lobstermen with the money to raise their families. These traps, buoys and rope are located in Tenants Harbor Maine. There has been some really awful publicity for the lobstering industry here in Maine recently and it breaks my heart. These men and women are the salt of the earth and their labor is costly and dangerous too. I didn't realize that all the rope that lobstermen use have meaning to other lobstermen and their industry. I just always thought that it was just so pretty to see the red, blue and orange ropes all organized and waiting to go out into the ocean. I am not 100% clear of their each individual purposes, but the lobster haulers know what they mean and how to use them. Please support our lobstering industry here in Maine. We have rules that govern what lobsters we can harvest and which ones get thrown back to make other baby lobsters.

For example: " Minimum and maximum size requirements exist for lobsters caught in Maine; the minimum size requirement being a length of 3 ¼ inches and the maximum being a length of 5 inches. The minimum and maximum size requirements are based on the length of the lobster's carapace or body shell."

And: "Can you keep a female lobster in Maine?
To further protect the population, females caught with eggs are given a v-notch on their tails. This notch doesn't harm them, but it lets other fishers know that the specimen in question is a fertile breeder. The female then cannot be legally caught."

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September 21st, 2022

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