So I read an article today that lobstering is a danger to whales.

[OAITW r.2.0]

They end up getting entangled with the trap lines/buoys when they come in to feed close to the coast.

Seems like a great industry to revolutionize with drones to dive, capture, and bring the traps up without lines and buoys. No reason that traps can't have transponders that tell the lobsterman when he is over one of his traps and then send the drone down to bring the trap back to the surface.

Still have to remove the lobsters (careful!) and rebait (pretty stinky).

[peacebuzzard]

1. that is awful, I guess I will try to research the lobster source

sad for the whales, whats left of them.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. But an opportunity to kick lobster fishing into the 21st century.

Hope some UMaine Graduate with connections to the lobstering industry and engineering can get the undergrad tech guys/gals to take this on....

[peacebuzzard]

4. so far I have not heard of farmed lobster

or other shellfish for that matter.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Sure, that's happening. Salmon. oysters, and other popular seafood are being farmed...

But, what I am suggesting doesn't change the lobster's lifestyle, at all. Simply changing the method of harvesting them.

[peacebuzzard]

6. it is a great idea.

lobster is a festive meal, I have indulged before. But I will do more research, I am selective with tuna at the market and usually buy the top of the line, dolphin safe, and I think its called pole fishing source.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. Way back in the day, it was the poor people's food on the coast.

Funny, no? Lifelong Mainer, and I'm not a huge fan. Maybe because I spent time on a lobster boat on Saco Bay, Maine in my impressionable young teens. The bait - on a hot day with no wind - was rough.

[peacebuzzard]

8. well canned tuna is still my last resort,

when I am hungry and don't want the trip out to get something.
You live in beautiful country!
New England's historical coastal association with the whaling industry was monumental. I think of your area's whaling history often. Very few whales are left, now.

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. I was a part-time stern man (boy) for a couple of months in 1968, I think.

One of my Dad's friends offered to have me "try out".. I think I got paid $1.50/hour. Haul up (powered), remove the lobsters, measure, then rebait the trap.

He was quite a character...family well established in the area - long line of lobstermen. He explained an important observation of life to me that I never forgot....

"There are 3 kinds of rats in the world. The ones that fly, we call them seagull's. The second kind are land rats...like you sea on the jetty (world-class rat size, btw), and then you have the rats that live in the Ocean....we call 'em Lobstah."

[peacebuzzard]

10. lol, I have always called shrimp the "cockroaches" of the seas

you know, the crusty outer skin is in common! , I don't know re: similarities in cognitive ability; but both species seem to flit around in their environments... I am basically a vegetarian and often a pescaterian, so I am always concerned about the other species cognitive processing. I don't want anything to suffer for me!

[Blue Owl]

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