Sentences with phrase «of lobstermen»

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

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).

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.»

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.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

One of these, the Eastwind, will take you around the harbor to see the beautiful Maine coastline, lighthouses, lobstermen, wildlife, remote islands, and more.

Humans, like the fisherman and lobsterman of a prior article here, even when informed that they are destroying their careers and livelihood by excess fishing, still insist on doing it.

«As fishermen, the ocean is our workplace, our cultural heritage and economically sustains us and our extended communities as it has for generations,» said Richard Nelson, a lobsterman who fishes out of Friendship Harbor.