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Watching your channel keeps the memories of my waterman ex-husband alive, I actually can vouch for Bombas promise about donating to homeless shelters because when we were homeless they did it a lot during the start to end of the cold season for a few years now for the 3 place in Georgetown Delaware. The company also donated to a few other places in the state over so yeah they are one of the few companies that you can trust in what they are saying., stay safe y'all and God bless 👏🏻🙏🏻
Watched this channel for the whimsical humor at first… soon learned the difficulty of being a custodian and fisherman of a limited resource. Thanks goes to this channel for sharing what it takes to be a great fisherman‼️ 🙏😇
This shows that a job that can be boring and monotonous, if you have a great team, can be made fun and enjoyable, even on the worst days. Ya'll make my day ☺
Crabs and other animals can commit some form of infanticide to prevent predators from eating their children. Take, for example, the cute Quokkas that throw their babies at predators to eat so the mom can get away.
Fellow Maineiacs here. I love the enthusiasm you guys bring to your work. I used to buy urchins out of Winter Harbor and my father lives just up 186 in Gouldsboro. We need to come meet you guys when we get up there next month. Thanks for the Maine focused entertainment and education on everything lobster. Mark
This was a lot of fun guys! I think the crab eating it's young was probably stressed being out of water etc. I didn't know crab eggs were pink, interesting. I've learned a lot since watching your videos Jacob. Thank you to you and your crew.
Stressed out, or just hungry. Invertebrates and other sea creatures (like the seahorse) routinely eat their young. So the seahorse dad gestating the brood will also usually sample a few as he squirts them out. It's a crab eat crab world out there!
@@Orcrez Crabs are cannibalistic starting at birth. The first prey of a young crab hunting is often its brothers or sisters. There is a reason why they reproduce by the tens of thousands.
My teenage son has been out at sea for 3 years now doing crayfish/lobster here in southern Australia and he also fishes for tuna, does other fishing charters, also does pelagic bird watching tours, done some research with SARDI. He loves the water and all that is within. He even has a blue shark on the continental shelf that knows the sound of the boat and his voice and comes to him and he feeds it He would love to experience this type of lobster fishing
I have been a lobster lover since I tasted my 1st🦞 at 13yrs old. Now 50+yrs later I still love to eat 1 with butter..... Hello 👋🏻 from Southern California 🌴
@@lovesloudcars A delicious buttery sauce is a must, don't try it without, if you can. You're taste buds will thank you, Christmas morning for the mouth!
Great video…so much fun. Thanks for sharing! Y’all have one hard job! I loved to fish…never done so in the ocean…just lakes in Texas on a rowboat or my aunts high powered boat (very fast for that time). My one claim to fame is that at 11, after losing my rod, I made a pole using a metal curtain rod. Caught a huge catfish…bent the rod in two. Don’t know how I got it to shore I was so skinny. My Dad took it around the neighborhood showing it off, lol. Thanks for bringing back that memory for this old lady,
That's adorable! I have mainly fished in lakes too. When I was 6 or 7 we lived on the lake with my grandparents while looking for a new house but it was a nightly thing in the summer to take the pontoon out for a spin around the lake before bed. I loved fishing with my grandpa and begged him to let me fish on our nightly cruise. He picked out the biggest lure he owned and put it on his big fishing pole and let me toss it behind us as we tootled around the lake slowly. I was sitting there and something almost jerked the pole out of my hands. Grandpa stopped the pontoon and figured the way the pole was bending that I'd probably snagged a log or something and was a bit bummed that I'd might have lost his biggest lure. I slowly started reeling and cranking and grandpa saw the line move sideways. He held on to me with one hand and the pole with another. We ended up pulling in a monster of a pike. Its in my aunts archive chest of photos somewhere but I'm standing there with my grandpa and a pike that was bigger than me! Even the paper came out and took a photo. The only thing bigger was the grin in my and papas face! This was way back in the early 70s. We had the biggest fish fry ever the next day. And grandpa nailed it's head next to the others on the shed lol Thanks for letting me share my fish memories 😊
Something that's never happened to me while watching RU-vid. My scent memory while watching a video. I spend a lot of time in the down east area, and it's cool to watch this and get that Maine ocean smell memory.
You put those socks in the bait trap you Will Have the lobsters JUMPING OUT OF THE WATER AN INTO THE BOAT 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. No just picking. You all crack me up . Keep your video’s coming. Thanks
I fished with Richard Merryman one summer. He was the smartest and hardest working lobsterman I have ever known. He fished approximately 1500 traps and we hauled 500 traps each day from 5:00 a.m. until as late as 8:00 p.m. dat 90 pounds per trap. I truly miss him.
Your talk about finding the buoys reminds me of many years on the bows and bowsprits of sailboats sighting “lobster pots” in my youth . And indicating how many points (of the compass) off the bow it was if not dead ahead. Mostly Long Island Sound, Mass., RI. As I recall, foggy days were usually windless so we were motoring; no fun getting the propeller wound up in buoy lines!
Just came to say hi, I’m a new subscriber found you by accident and find it fascinating watching you teach about the sea but I’ll have to watch this video later because I’m going back to the beginning to binge watch
I do love me a fresh Maine lobster. I ate many a cull from the pounds in Bar Harbor, where I went to college. We picked up lobsters, and collected mussels off the rocks. Roasted corn on the cob, and lovely tomatoes off the vine. Melted butter and lemon. No better meal ever! It’s been many years since I ate that well - there’s a company that brings fresh lobster down from ME and sells lobster rolls out of a food truck here in Virginia, the food is fairly priced, but as a retired artist living on a fixed income, well you can imagine!
I absolutely love your videos, Jacob! 💕 You, Scott, and Cody have such great rapport with each other and are so much fun to watch! Thank you for taking us along with you to show us the world of lobster fishing and just how much you care about its sustainability for the future. 💕🦞
I live on the Northumberland coast of Nova Scotia. I see those bait bags washed up on the shore everytime I go down to the water at low tide. I saw them out on the water at 4:30 this morning. Not the life for me, but you make it interesting. Good luck out there Jacob.
I love watching you guys the three of you are hilarious great chemistry. Would be a blast to ho out with you guys on a shift!! Stay safe Happy summer!!! Great content !!!
That's so funny and great he got socks. I was feeling bad for him having to go the rest of the day without socks. Thanks for sponsoring the video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jacob makes a really hard job and not glorious job look fun and appealing I used to work on prawn boat it was actually quite rewarding buts struggled with the Neta 😊 and the great thing about this job it's like lemonade money the demand for things like shellfish it's so high that if your a hitting and catching a lot of shellfish you'll make good money
I do not eat lobster. I don't eat shrimp. It's a Deuteronomy or Leviticus thing. But! I thoroughly enjoy your videos and your appreciation that the regulations regarding what you can keep and what you can't contribute to your continued ability to catch and sell lobsters far into the future.
lol Cody looks like a friend of mine and he just happens to be a commerical fisherman in Maine haha. He operates out on Casco Bay. Lobsters and scallops primarily.
*Crabs might eat their own eggs for a variety of reasons, including:* *Stress response:* Some say that crabs eat their eggs as a stress response. *Lack of nutrients:* Crabs might eat their eggs if they don't think they have enough nutrients to survive. *Low chance of survival:* Crabs might eat their eggs if they think there is little chance of survival. *Lack of food and water:* Crabs might eat their eggs if they lack food and water. Crabs and other aquatic species are known to eat their own eggs and hatched young.
I had to stop the video....just laughing my butt off literally......you can see I hardly have any of it left....I'm sure I'll catch up with it soon, now that I'm lighter. What did you guys do to that crab? Thinking a call to the ASPCA is in order to report that crab!! Did I mention I'm only 6 1/2 minutes into the video? HAHA! Thanks for catching my occasional lunch and dinner! Love me some Maine Lobstah!!
I have MS. It mostly affects my hands. The only time that I ever played corn hole I tried it as normal at first. But then I started putting the bag on the toe of my shoe and flicking it to that target. I could be a contender!
Crabs will eat their own eggs and even hatchlings if they're hungry and nothing else is available or even convenient. Its a survival trait. Those eggs are packed with nutrients. Sacrifice some to survive until next year's breeding season. Nothing is off the menu for a crab.
Seeing the crab eat her own eggs doesn't surprise me. Crustaceans will eat almost anything.....and in my home aquarium, my Cories always end up eating their own eggs after they've laid them all over the glass too!
Open Kodiak Island Alaska here we get a lot of fog also I have been on a salmon fishing boat and we couldn't even see the guy at the other end of the net that's connected to it with a snag skiff good luck today guys
Very interesting, thanks. I’m wondering if you could be a bit more gentle with the release. Rather than throwing them or spinning them in the air like juggling pins. Thanks for considering that.
@blessedbeauty2293 There are over 7000 licensed Maine lobstermen/women and they caught around 94 million pounds last year so unfortunately the odds are pretty slim but not impossible I suppose
I just watched Manifest on Netflix, and the little kid who plays Cal looks like he could be your kid! He's a spitting image of you, Jacob! Weird resemblance if he isn't related!
That crab is crazy, but it kinda makes sense. Big scary thing comes to eat on her or her eggs, the eggs are the only thing that don't have a big tough shell, so eat them now and use the energy to make more later. Metal as h e double hockey sticks
