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LOBSTER FISHING (Lobster fishing is the commercial or recreational harvesting of marine lobsters or spiny lobsters.
This is a major marine industry in the state of Maine, as well as other northeastern ports. Maine lobstermen fish for the American lobster, scientifically referred to as Homarus americanus.
In Maine, lobsters can only be legally caught in lobster traps, also called pots. These traps are either rectangular-shaped or half cylinders and were once made from oak,
but are now primarily made from wire mesh covered with a thick layer of plastic to reduce oxidation of the metal.
Lobster traps are connected to the buoy with rope, known locally as pot warp.
Sometimes there is a float called a toggle tied between the trap and the buoy to keep the rope tight so as to reduce the possibility of the rope wrapping around rocks on the bottom and becoming stuck.
New laws are in the works to try and protect whales by making float "rope" used on the bottom on the lines (to protect the trap from becoming stuck and traped on bottom, inprisoning large lobsters) illegal, there is little evidence that this law will protect whales only hurt fisherman since the majority of dead whales found in the ocean have been killed by being run over by large tankers like oil barges.
Areas in North America where lobster fishing is common include southern California, New England, and the Canadian Maritimes. In South West Nova Scotia(District #34) you have a limit of 375 pots and the season runs from the last Monday of November to the end of May. There is no limit to the number of lobster caught per trap, but there are size restrictions. Undersized lobsters are called "tinkers".
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ABOUT THOSE FISHERMEN...............
There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. ~Author Unknown
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. ~A.K. Best
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. ~Author Unknown
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. ~Author Unknown
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers. ~Beatrice Cook, Till Fish Do Us Part, 1949
We ask a simple question
And that is all we wish:
Are fishermen all liars?
Or do only liars fish?
~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. ~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954
Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. ~Chuck Clark
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. ~Herbert Hoover
Good things come to those who bait. ~Author Unknown
My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it. ~Koos Brandt
And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Christian Bible/ Matthew 4:19
Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town. Charles Kingsley, The Three Fishers
Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God. Tony Blake
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