How would you like to be gutted or tossed into boiling water?
"Lobstermen fear days are numbered; Limits on fishing could put some out of business" by Patrick G. Lee, Globe Correspondent | July 20, 2010
NEW BEDFORD — Caffeinated soda and peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches keep Jarrett Drake going during 15-hour days, the tedium interrupted by the thrill of reeling in a trap teeming with lobsters.
But in recent years those moments have been fewer and fewer, he said. And now, because of the dwindling lobster population, a multistate commission will begin deciding this week whether to ban all lobstering from south of Cape Cod to North Carolina for five years....
Warming waters, especially in shallower, coastal areas that lobsters prefer, have pushed populations farther offshore, where the ocean is cooler.
That's why animal rights folks were plucking turtles suffering hypothermia out of the sea this past winter.
You know, maybe there has been overfishing; however, when they follow it up with that damnable warming lie they lose any inclination toward belief I would have had.
That means lobstermen have to travel farther and spend more money on diesel to power their boats.
Since when has the government cared about the lobsterman?
The lobsters are also subject to more biological stress in deeper waters, where increased competition for food, predation, and susceptibility to disease could be contributing to the deflated lobster numbers.
Yeah, like POLLUTION, right?
“Everything is falling apart,’’ said J. Stanley Cobb, a lobster specialist and oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island. “It’s time for fundamental change.’’
Whenever I see terms like that in an agenda-pushing paper I say BEWARE, readers!
In the cold waters farther north in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank, where the majority of New England’s catch comes from, lobsters remain abundant....
Gee, I hauled up a Boston Globe trap and it was full of bulls***!!!!
Related: Lobsterman Losing Way of Life
Lobstermen get reprieve on ban
Fisheries summit aims for more accountable law enforcement
Yeah, turns out the government treated your average fisherman like a bunch of criminals while the overseeing office was being looted.
Also see: Boston Globe Fishing Net
Kind of a spicy meal they hauled up, 'eh?
Update:
"Live Lobster Co. buys Maine cannery" by Associated Press | August 5, 2010
PORTLAND, Maine — The nation’s last full-time sardine cannery is being given a second life four months after it closed with a company agreeing to buy it and operate it as a lobster-processing facility.
Then business must be pretty good! Or are all the sardine gone.
Bumble Bee Foods LLC said it had agreed to sell the former Stinson Seafood plant in Prospect Harbor to Live Lobster Co. of Chelsea, Mass.
Live Lobster expects to create up to 40 jobs in the first year and 120 within two years. The plant at first will be used to buy and sell lobsters, with lobster-processing operations beginning next year.
The sales price was not disclosed.--more--"
