His dad was a lobsterman, so he did some of that, too.
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He worked for the lobsterman the next summer to pay off the balance.
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That is not as interesting as the fact that this word, lobsterman, exists.
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A lobsterman shoved two live lobsters into a paper bag for us, and we headed off for the subway.
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"I like what I've got," said Mr. Smith, the lobsterman, who is an independent and voted for Mr. Trump.
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"This marina is a game changer for New York City," Mr. Golden, 67, a former lobsterman and Massachusetts state senator, said.
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Even before the law required it, lobsterman began restricting their catches, throwing back undersized or oversized lobsters and egg-bearing females.
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The team of my youth lets go of seasons like a lobsterman tossing underweight crustaceans back into the Gulf of Maine.
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Richie Carlsen, a lobsterman who runs a gym and coaches the high school soccer team, said Salt was unusually bustling and refined.
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"The hard part is it was an up-and-coming market," laments lobsterman Michael Floyd, who has been pulling lobsters from the sea since childhood.
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For now, none of this is a very big deal—unless you're a soybean farmer or a lobsterman, two American constituencies that have been hit hard.
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Lobster can even be currency itself; my dad sold his mid-70's International Scout to a lobsterman for $200 and an exchange of 40 lobsters.
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"It's been good to have it," said Charles Smith, a lobsterman from Jonesport whose wife and three teenagers were sporadically without insurance for years before the law.
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We climb into the boat and our lobsterman for the day, Sam Lowe, reverses us out into the Firth of Forth, the estuary that borders the North Sea.
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Lobster boats have radar, sonar and other electronic aids, but Steve Train, a lobsterman for more than 30 years, still likes to keep an eye on apple and cherry blossoms.
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A seafood platter seemed the work more of a sushi chef than of a lobsterman, the snow-crab legs split carefully, the morsel-size blue shrimp sweet and crunchingly fresh.
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"We have a multimillion-dollar industry, and a woefully inadequate understanding," said Curtis Brown, a lobsterman and marine biologist for Ready Seafood, one of the state's largest exporters of lobster.
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He called his dad, who had 1 years of experience as a Maine lobsterman, dealer and processor, and asked him to be a 50-50 investor in the first Luke's Lobster shack.
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As for Mr Welch, whose grandfather was a lobsterman and who has been fishing since he was 14, he is not sure that the industry as he knows it will exist for his son.
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Dave Cousens, a lobsterman, begins his day before sunrise in South Thomaston, Me.CreditCreditGreta Rybus for The New York Times VINALHAVEN, Me. — At 219:23.25 in the morning on a Friday in late May, the lobstermen ate breakfast.
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If you google "lobsterman," you get a mixture of results: images of men in lobster costumes (all red); a sad page about a "monster" human with "ectrodactyly," or "Lobster Claw Syndrome"; and some articles about the most recent blue lobster and his captor's happiness.
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Of the many jobs, Daniel has been a lobsterman in Maine, a cheesemaker in Wisconsin, a park ranger in Wyoming, high school football coach in Alabama, and a rodeo announcer in South Dakota.
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She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. Her father was a lobsterman and a small business owner based out of Hull. While in college she worked as a sternman on her father's boat to pay for tuition at Harvard University. She graduated from Harvard in 1987 with a B.A. in English.
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The crew that removed the bell lost control of it, and it fell into the Bay. A Lobsterman salvaged it some years later and it is on exhibit on Great Spruce Head Island. Today Eagle Light is owned by a nonprofit which provides public access and has restored both the light itself and the square pyramidal bell tower. Along with several other lights in Maine, the growth of trees around the light has made its future problematic.
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Instead, a lamp was hung in either gable: red on one end, and white on the other. The unique roof caused some problems with the usual practice of collecting rainwater in cisterns, as it was prone to contamination from salt spray. The first keeper, Frederick Purinton, was badly injured in 1894 by an assailant believed to be a local lobsterman, and quit the post two weeks later. In 1900 the original lamps were replaced by brighter lanterns, but the same arrangement of hanging them obtained.
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This decision was criticized by ex-lobsterman Trevor Corson as damaging a New England tradition and as removing people's connection to where their food actually comes from. Ronnie Cummins, national director of the United States Organic Consumers Association, opined that "Whole Foods Market now is a big-box retailer – and it's much more concerned about competing with the other big boxes than issues of ethics and sustainability." Similarly, researcher Stacy Mitchell of the New Rules Project argues that the corporation's aggressive marketing of local food is more hype than substance.
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As expected, most people rejected them, but there were plenty who agreed to share their stories. They booked a handful of interviews, bought an old RV, painted it green and began mapping their route. During their three- month journey, they met with a wide range of diverse and eclectic individuals–from winemaker Robert Mondavi to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; from Saturday Night Live director Beth McCarthy Miller to a lobsterman on the coast of Maine. Each interviewee had an inspiring story to tell and shared how they paved the road to self-fulfillment and success.
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John Popielaski attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook and American University. His profile in the back of Contemporary Martyrdom refers to him as, "an itinerant teacher and seasonal laborer;" he in fact worked several years as a mover, a lobsterman, and assisting a tropical biologist before teaching English in Mississippi, New York City, and now at Xavier High School in Middletown Connecticut. Many of his poems have been published in literary journals, and he has been the recipient of a fellowship from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
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He began his career as an instructor and professor of English and of creative writing teaching briefly at Williams College, and later at Dartmouth College and Mount Holyoke College. He has spent most of his teaching career at Boston University where the creative writing program still awards a prize in his name. It was said of him that as a sailor he was as skilled as any lobsterman who shared Penobscot Bay. Laconic in his ways, he woke early to write, to shape words that spoke his sense of what Maine stood for against the ebbing of old New England.
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Trevor Corson is the author of the books The Story of Sushi and The Secret Life of Lobsters. Trevor Corson is a writer, and author of the books The Secret Life of Lobsters and The Story of Sushi. Corson spent two years studying philosophy in China, three years in Japan living in temples and studying Buddhism, and two years working as a commercial lobsterman off the Maine coast. As a journalist Corson has written about food, religion, foreign affairs, medicine, and a wide variety of other topics for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Atlantic Monthly.
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These covers, many of which became famous among billiard aficionados, included such staged scenes as: a Neanderthal couple playing pool on a stone table using rocks for balls (history issue); a grizzled lobsterman checking his catch of 9-balls in an authentic lobster trap (New England issue); and a group of yuppie gamblers playing at a pool/craps table with 9-ball and 8-ball dice and a croupier using a modified cue stick to rake in the chips (gambling issue). Two of the most famous covers were for the Johnston City and collectible cues issues. On the former, rare photos of the famous "Pit" at Johnston City and a well-preserved copy of a Johnston City program appeared. The latter featured a photo of one of the rarest billiard cue-and-case combinations, with a cue built by master cue builder Gus Szamboti and a matching case by Fellini.
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On 8 December 1946 Laurel was reassigned to Rockland, Maine and used for maintaining navigational aids, search and rescue operations and ice breaking. On 4–5 January 1953 she towed fishing vessel Estrella to Gloucester, Massachusetts. On 27 May 1957 she towed fishing vessel Regina Maria to Rockland, Maine, and on 7–8 August 1958 was the on-scene operational commander following a collision between cargo ships and SS Gulfoil at the entrance to Narragansett Bay during a heavy fog. On 10 January 1959 she assisted fishing vessels Bobby and Harvey off Rockland, Maine, on 13–14 March 1959 she assisted disabled lobsterman Betty Lu, on 25 November 1959 she assisted the tug Alta May and tow near Rockland, Maine, and on 4 July 1967 she recovered the wreckage and bodies from a private plane that had crashed into the water off of Moose Point, Maine. On 21 May 1969 Laurel was reassigned to Morehead City, North Carolina to continue her duties as a buoy tender and search and rescue vessel.
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