Jay on February 1st, 2010

Lobster News Lines:  Connecting Maine Lobster Connections Over the course of the past 30 years I’ve been in and out of the Maine Lobster Industry a few times, working on wharfs, buying, trucking, sterning and finally, fishing my own gear.  The one thing always puzzling me, is how loosely we’re all connected, never completely sure [...]

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I ran across this very timely & to the point article on the crayzone.com/au website, posting it and figuring we all need to take a very hard look at what’s happening on the world stage.  These guys are the same as us, but taking governmental restrictions harder than ever as their 2009-2010 fishing season just [...]

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Jay on December 3rd, 2009

Lobster Newslines: The Herrin’ Pickle I’ve been on and off boats since 1971, in and out of the lobster business for much of the same time minding my own business, but I’ve got to tell ya, the way things are setting up is starting to piss me off.  I’m not a highliner, nor do I [...]

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Jay on October 10th, 2009

Lobster News Lines: Catching up to the 2009 Lobster Season It’s been just about six (6) months since I last posted an article on kellys-stuff.com, which seems a heck of a time ago.  Ideas have come and gone, the Moseley Report was published, a LAC/DMR Tiered Licensing system proposal was defeated by Zone Councils, trap [...]

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Jay on August 30th, 2009

Walk onto any mid coast and/or down east wharf and you’ll hear, “The lobster pie is sliced way too thin. Too many people fishin’! Too many traps fishin’!” But I’ve got to tell ya, “There’s starting to be too many cooks in the kitchen!” Whether you realize it or not, lobstering is increasingly under siege [...]

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