Nicely controlled lobster fishing observing all the conservation rules throwing back the undersized and the ones with eggs under the tail, Good Traditional,Thanks.
This old man can't stop chasing the gold totally understand as we get older your dreams never change but your body does well done video thanks for sharing
One of the most enjoyable fishing. The most I like that the fishermen always only catch standardized size allowed by regulation which rarely find in my country Indonesia. But our Marine and Fishery Minister - Mrs. Poedji Astuti has enforced related regulation on the size of lobsters, tuna, etc. But Is hard in practice by our fishermen. I hope they are also starting watch this kind of videos as lesson learn.
I like your wood traps. The ones I made were all wood, white oak. Took allot of weight to get them to sink and they didn't hold up to the storm we got last summer. I've never heard of anyone using flounder for bait. Wouldn't be legal in NH. Nice video.
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i like using flounder for bait...lasts longer, dont have birds chasin us all day like when we use herring and i find we dont get near as much crab in the traps with flounder for bait but tge lobster love it. during native fall food fishery up here some of us use salt pork for bait. sounds funny i know but it works pretty well unless someones fishin close to you and using fish in their traps. the pork fat lasts a week or two and we dont get any rock crab in the traps like we do with herring or mackeral this time of year. makes for fast fishin
Looked like another sad day, with barely enough Lobster to pay the gas., let alone the bait. It breaks my heart to see such a decline in all fisheries. To much work, for so many empty traps. Wander what the outcome would be, if they were given a five year moratorium. I wander how old that one big lobster was. Twenty years maybe. Thanks for sharing this video.
Neat vid. Would like to know the location. My guess would be Bay of Fundy or Gulf of Maine. Still using some wooden traps fishing very shallow waters. This is more like the traditional fishery of my grand-dad except he would have been in a dory, hauling by hand. No trap hauler. This would have been from 1920's to about 1945-50.
I remember going to the dory race's , they are still a big part of life in Rockland Harbor and all up Rock port and up thru Camden ..the dory is still the staple ..
@@TheRoguelement Dories are still used here, on Grand Manan, NB for several things, mainly sea-vege harvesting. (eg. dulse and nori). I had one I used for dulsing and hand lining for pollack.
I'm a lobster fisherman from Maine here we we have 3 traps let line instead of one. In the fall we switch to 20 trap trauls and move way offshore.. catching em now traps r full. We also fish the square traps instead of the ones there using the square 4ft o es we use r far superior. There also wire and hold together better then these wooden ones. We got rid of the wooden ones iin the late 90s
Inshore fishing.Most guys fish large strings with multi pots that are wire construction.The lobster fishery in Nova Scotia is by far the world's largest far exceeding Maine catch.
@@jimnickerson5755 Exactly right,, and we have a trap limit and a 5/6 month season. Not right sure about now days, but know at one time Maine never had a trap or season limit and we still landed more lobster in N.S. LoL, let this guy come to the south shore of N.S. on setting day and see how it's done the right way.
The captain doesn't do much but stand there that's the Canadian way I guess down in Maine where I fished for 43 years we hauled trawls 3 trap in side the 25 mile line and 10 traps outside of that I have the bouy landed the trap dump the bait bag stern man took lobsters out the trap and put it on the back of the boat I checked lobsters for size and it it had eggs or a v notch then the stern man banded the claws and put them in the live tank
LoL, another yank that thinks their way is the only way. Come to the south shore of N.S.on the first hauling day of the season and see how it's done. You can't judge this one vid and assume that's how it's done all over.. LoL, you Mainers have a year round fishery and 800 trap limit while us in N.S. have half of each of those and we still out fish you.. So say again what way works the best..
This is I like very much about the USA. There is a particular season to harvest, hunting. logging etc. Each boat has a allowable weight to harvest. And also they return back to water those under size. Amazing! But I dont like their crappy politics.
Lobster aren't stationary they move with tides moons time's of year but it also depends on how hard these places have been fished out ..Some of the less intelligent Lobster men have no problem taking shorts and even the larger breeder's that NO honest person could ever tell you they truly enjoyed eating as they chewed on tail meat for day's but yes you may hit on an area that been fished out ..and they are NOT really fast growing ..they get as old as 100 + years
I can't get over the number of shitty comments. People are working hard for a living and if it was easy, everyone would be a fisherman. I am surprised at the low number of keepers, but I know very little about commercial fishing. We dive for lobster in Florida for enjoyment and good eating.
No troll? One single pot at a time? Baiting with flounder? Wood pots? Do you have a phone at the house with a dial on it too? Unless fuel is free you are starving.
I am surprised they only do single pots with good pot hauler they should be able to a string of at least twenty but then you have to be carefull when setting them
I used to fish a little 16 footer and used to do strings of 3 pots reason was saving of rope and trying to keep cost down, anyway hope you have good catches best of luck take care
The bottom is very rocky and lots of underwater ledges, lobsters are tricky and require precision pot placement many times close to rocky shores so stringing more then 2 or 3 can be a pain in the ass unless you are out in open waters fishing deeper.
the nice thing about lobstering is you don't work 24 hour days in freezing ice and you don't have a sky high over head and best of all you don't have to wrestle 800 lb pots besides I prefer lobster over crab
hahaha thats cute, of course we do but the traps are not 800 lbs but we do have things called trawls. and we stack by hand we dont use a crane. also we do work all day in freezing weather down here in Massachusetts.
Ayub Hans I forget how much the crates hold but if they have 80 lbs each it'll be round $200 for each of them but that's depending on the time of year as the price per pound here in Maine can be from a low of around $3 to up to $9 in the winter
Buddy you suppose to V-notch Female lobsters that have eggs on them. Your not doing much for the conservation of lobstering by throwing her over like that. The way you threw her back in the water tells me you guys could give two fucks about longevity of lobstering. Bravo
LMAO, you two cupcakes know as much about lobster fishing as l do about rocket science. For one, how do you know the female wasn't already V-notched. Two, throwing it back like that doesn't bother the eggs at all,, you do know lobsters crawl around on bottom and the eggs are rubbed on sand, rocks etc.. LoL, you ever have a female lobster in your hand. If you did then you would know how tough it is for those eggs to come off the tail.
@@52Rambler Your pretty funny guy, ill give you that. Our number one priority was always the longevity of the fishery. We don't throw lobsters in the box, we place them. We don't put unbanded hardshell with anything close to a soft shell. You throw an egg bearing female back first into the water. (ever done a belly splash? I can just about GAURENTEE you create expodential ammounts of force compared to "scraping on the rocks or sand"). The fact you even compared the two together tells me you are not really putting much thought into things. When it comes to V-notches, that is a crucial part of conservation. The way that guy handles the bugs makes me assume he is throwing over egger's un-notched. Keeping lobsters upside down too long can suffocate them, destorying your product. Throwing lobsters on top of each other, puncturing the soft spots, will bleed them out and kill them. If you disagree with any of the points I just made, I would love to hear any other insight you may have. Quality catch = quality price. When you work as hard as some of us do out on the water, you can bet your ass I want to make the absolute most out of my time spent. Ill make a nice bed for each one of those fuckers if it means I am getting almost twice as much for my catch as you do. But hey, common sense ain't too common, amirite?
@@52Rambler What does that have to do with anything? I stopped fishing 4 or 5 years ago. You know what I said in that last comment is truth. The only assumption I made is about whether or not I think the guy is doing his due diligence when it comes to V-notching. Which to be fair, may have been pushing it.
Ben Johnson These take a minimum of 7 years to mature for harvest in the wild in perfect conditions. Farming these type of lobsters would not go good at all..
