Sentences with word «lobsterman»

I'm a 26 yr old lobsterman who works hard but loves to have fun.

In the lobster industry, competition between groups of lobstermen gave rise to strongly defended territories and encouraged group members to restrict their harvests.

But the Maine lobster seems almost immune to such disaster; a growing number of Maine lobstermen continue to haul in a grand 20 million pounds a year of delectable crustacean with no shortage looming on the horizon.

Every day, six or more local lobstermen including Rick Dorr and his nephew unload their catch at Dorr's wharf and take on bait and fuel for the next day's work.

Jonesport and Beals Island are two of the few places along the jagged shoreline where lobstermen haven't been priced out of owning oceanfront property.

The crowd on lobsterman Sonny Beal's boat Nancy Ann wears shirts that say, «WE MAY NOT BE FIRST, BUT SOMETIMES WE»RE NOT LAST.»

At the zenith of his power, Barbato along with Montauk lobsterman Perry Duryea, onetime Assembly Speaker, and Southampton dairyman Edwin «Buzz» Schwenk ruled over the 10 town GOP organizations which often sparred for control.

Ryan said the threat to the GOP is similar to the 1974 Watergate scandal, which turned the Republican - controlled Assembly, led by Montauk lobsterman Perry Duryea Jr., into a Democratic chamber, a loss from which the GOP has never recovered.

I'm a 29 year old lobsterman from midcoast Maine, with an addiction to traveling on sailboats.

Though the city's still peppered with lobstermen spewing salty language who ply their trade in Casco Bay, residents now also rub elbows with yoga - panted, microbrew - swilling transplants and the old money set.

Long Island lobstermen, already straining under the weight of a seasonal closure of the Long Island Sound and sharply reduced lobster populations, face the potential for more closures as federal regulators work to rebuild a depleted stock.

Luke's Lobster founder Luke Holden is a third - generation lobsterman.

There are more homes on Bar Island today, but it remains a close community where neighbors watch out for neighbors and everyone knows which lobsterman's truck is rumbling down the dirt road to the wharf at 4:30 in the morning, the family says.

A few years ago, on the island of Matinicus, one lobsterman shot another in the neck in broad daylight on a wharf in the center of town after catching him cutting his traps.

Lobstermen generally won't tell you how much money they make, although when he took me fishing on Friday, Richard said he nets about $ 120,000 a year.

Some people in town say the races started when lobstermen would race each other into the harbor after a day of hauling traps.

His father worked in the Brookhaven Town Highway Department and was also a Long Island Sound lobsterman.

This restraint is a type of cooperation, and it helped lobstermen maintain their lobster populations and livelihoods.

Last fall, he and other lobstermen along the Connecticut shore kept hearing about a great lobster die - off 30 miles to the west - one that began around the time that New York City started spraying malathion to prevent an epidemic of West Nile encephalitis.

Better yet, as temperatures rise and a faint buzzing begins to fill the air, officials might want to go talk to a few lobstermen.

They also boast maritime expertise, from a captain out of Vancouver to a Cape Cod lobsterman.

Across the road stood the young lobsterman's truck.

She would pursue a simpler life; move back in with her parents and get to know them again; become a professional lobsterman; and find a guy, build a house, have kids, and settle down.

Last year, Maine Lobstermen raised nearly $ 5,000 with all proceeds benefitting Guide Dogs of America.

Others were more current: Maine lobstermen tending their traps, his wife gardening, homey interiors and nudes in the studio or the landscape.

Hudson's two children, a 6 - year - old and an almost 4 - year - old, are out of diapers now, but she and her husband, a local lobsterman, did use cloth diapers with her youngest.

In recent years, Maine lobstermen have reported record lobster catches, which researchers believe may be related to warmer water temperatures in the south that force lobsters north as well as fewer predators in the Gulf, like cod, which have been in decline due to overfishing.

The lobstermen detailed their improbable journey in their new memoir Cousins Maine Lobster: How One Food Truck Became a Multi-Million Dollar Business.

Rick Dorr never wanted to be anything but a lobsterman.

Chad Dorr grades the lobsters by size and quality and every lobster is identified by the lobsterman who caught it.

She spotted a cooked lobster her lobsterman brother - in - law had dropped by earlier, quickly shelled it and dressed it with a bit of mayo, then stuffed it all inside a griddled bun.

«This story should've been done 25 years ago,» one of the lobstermen told me.

There's one main street, no hotels, one restaurant, a general store where you can still rent VHS tapes and DVDs, and about five last names: Alley, Beal, Carver, Peabody, and Smith («Father's Day is confusing here,» one of the lobstermen jokes).

They were on the boat with him when he started racing another lobsterman — showing off — and sank.

The lobstermen who make up this strange party compete all summer long on a race circuit that takes them and their boats to 11 fishing communities up and down the Maine coast.

A lobsterman Richard used to see on the water everyday recently died; Richard didn't know the guy very well, but he always looked forward to waving at him.

Kennedy is the granddaughter of the couple who own the video store, where the lobstermen play cribbage in the afternoons underneath a sign that says «Old Fart's, Daycare.»

In addition to being a lobsterman and boatbuilder, Doug also works as a caretaker for a couple from Connecticut who have a house in Jonesport.

Dana Beal — the lobsterman who owns The Right Stuff and is somehow related to Sonny — drives by in his boat and waves.

A 26 - foot boat really only needs a 250 - horsepower engine, but in order to race, lobstermen and women trick out boats of that size with 350 - 500 horsepower and open up their throttles for little more than pride.

A post on the Fans of Maine Lobster Boat Racing Facebook page announced that the lobstermen had postponed the competition until Tuesday, the Fourth of July, due to «wicked southerly and dungeon fog.»

I'm Rebecca, a Maine mom of three energetic young boys and wife of a lobsterman, living in my favorite place, the coast of Maine.

Lobstermen on the Long Island Sound are worried new regulations aimed at growing the lobster population could harm their business.

Local lobstermen aren't happy.

The lobstermen quickly blamed the pesticide, but sewage runoff and other pesticides could just as easily have been the culprits.

But the decision — which barred oil and gas exploration in the area and restricted commercial fishing — drew a lawsuit from Northeastern fishermen, including the Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association, Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen's Association, Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, Rhode Island Fishermen's Alliance and Garden State Seafood Association.

Their son Frank (Nick Stahl, Bully, Sunset Strip) is home from college, working as a lobsterman.

I wondered if the lobsterman and his wife came here.

At first I thought my mind must be tricking me as I made the turn and saw the lobsterman — he was only a couple of years younger than I was — coming down his front yard in his Carhartt jacket and ball cap.

Attraction to Noah, a lobsterman who wrestles with his own personal failures, gives Julia the courage to move away literally, to Noah's retreat, and emotionally, from the entangling family ties that have inhibited her own self - identity for years.