Bud
Senior Member
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2017
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- United States
- Vessel Name
- Izzy Rose
- Vessel Make
- Grand Banks 49
I was a commercial fisherman for 25 years in the Gulf of Maine. I also served two three year terms on the New England Fishery managemant council. A fishing boat typically has a limited amount of time to harvest there fish and return that perrishable product to port. There is usually land crew and trucks waiting on them. To make them go at idle at any point of there journey is problematic and difficult to do especially if it is just seasonal.
The lobsterman or crabbers are a different story they fish closer to shore in and around channels. They are there almost everyday baiting there traps and they do tend to develop a sense of ownership. They forget the fact that it is a public resource they are allowed to access. In Maine the lobster industry has become more of a aquaculture program. They feed those lobsters everyday until one day they are to big to get out of the trap escape panel. There is 70,000 metric tons of lobster bait put into the northeast coast ocean every year.
Bud
The lobsterman or crabbers are a different story they fish closer to shore in and around channels. They are there almost everyday baiting there traps and they do tend to develop a sense of ownership. They forget the fact that it is a public resource they are allowed to access. In Maine the lobster industry has become more of a aquaculture program. They feed those lobsters everyday until one day they are to big to get out of the trap escape panel. There is 70,000 metric tons of lobster bait put into the northeast coast ocean every year.
Bud