Category: lobster
Rockin and Rollin Aboard The Degelyse With Nate and Sean Part II
Is Sean Ever Serious? Nate Says His Antics Keep Going ALL DAY LONG.
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Rockin and Rollin Aboard The Degelyse With Nate and Sean Part I
Last week the boys led by fearless leader Tuffy got the day in lobstering while most of the fleet was tied up due to rough seas.
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Light and Demolishing
Down the dock we have a saying. Well I should give props to mark Ring for being the first one I ever heard coin the phrase but it has been adopted by many of our lobstermen.
The phrase is used when the weathermen really fuck up a forecast and call for light and diminishing winds but in actuality the wind is heavy throughout the fishing day making for horrible fishing conditions.
Lobstermen and fishermen depend on weathermen to know when it is safe or manageable to go fishing. The day before yesterday was one of those days when the weathermen were calling for light and diminishing winds. The average forecast was for 5-10mph of wind.
In actuality the wind screamed out of the Northwest 20-35mph all day and it was bitterly cold.
One by one our lobstermen hit the dock and commented about the off-the-mark wind forecast.
It wasn’t light and diminishing. More like Light and Demolishing.
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2010 Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree Built In A Day
Decorating of buoys for the tree will take place at Art Haven on Dec. 10th and 11th from 10am-4pm with the official lighting at 5:00 pm on the 11th. Feel free to call for more information. 978 283 3888
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I Wanna Puke!!!!
The Discovery Channel chooses to film the construction of The Inferior Vanilla Rockland Lobster Trap tree as opposed to The REAL DEAL.
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Discovery Channel to film Lobster Trap Christmas Tree
Gloucester’s 2009 Tree-
click picture for slide show
Rockland’s Crappy Vanilla Tree-
Thanks to Penelope Crane for alerting me to this horrible injustice.
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One Inch Baby Lobsters Filmed and Released Video
99.999% of folks never get to see what these tiny creatures look like at this stage of their development. We filmed the ones that came up in Toby Burnham’s aboard the Jupiter II traps and then released them to live another day.
Have you subscribed to Good Morning Gloucester yet? If not you may miss these things and what kind of Gloucester person wants to miss out on the insider stuff?
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What 99.9999% Of Bostonians Never Get To See- Bity Baby Lobsters
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Toby Burnham aboard The Jupiter II brought them in and released them after we photographed them.
To see all the different mutant lobsters including albino ones, blue ones, yellow lobsters, speckled lobsters and more click here for past videos and pictures from our dock
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The Mrs Makes Lobster Corn Chowder
No one cooks lobster like the Mrs. No-One! We’re still workin on the zugu but you put a pile of lobsters in front of her and she will make your taste buds sing!
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The Big Mother Shucker From Wired Magazine
This is what 87,000 pounds of water pressure will do to a lobster.
Click here for the story of how it got this way
thanks to Kurt Ankeny-Beauchamp for forwarding the story
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Jo-Anne Castano Forwards Links To Lobstering and Quarry Working in the the 30’s in Gloucester and Rockport
Hi Joey,
I just remembered these so went searching and thought you might like them. These are from The Library of Congress, American Memory. http://memory.loc.gov/
If you do a search for "Gor Svenson" you’ll find about 7 web pages of oral history. I copied down some excerpts below to give you an idea of the stories from the WPA era, living in Glouceter and Rockport. It is a record of a series of interviews with a Swedish-born American who was for most of his adult years a quarry-worker in Gloucester (Bay View and Lanesville) and Rockport, Massachusetts and who is now (then) engaged in lobstering. (1938) How much has changed since then? Stories are flavorfully Cape Ann.
Goes along with today’s events, Lookin’ For the Sunny Side of the Stree – America’s 1930’s in Gloucester.
Enjoy,Jo-
Also provided a link to the photography archives containing 503 records such as the one below.
There are images of,
On board the fishing boat Alden out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Vito Gioclone, fisherman of Gloucester
1943 June. | 1 negative | Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
#gallery owi2001030379/PP On board the fishing boat Alden out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Vito Gioclone. Gloucester, Massachusetts
1943 June. | 1 negative | Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
#gallery owi2001029492/PP Gloucester, Massachusetts. Gaspar Favozza, son of an Italian-American fisherman
1943 May. | 1 negative | Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=gloucester%2C%20massachusetts
Lobster traps stacked in an old net house. Gloucester, Massachusetts
- Title: Lobster traps stacked in an old net house. Gloucester, Massachusetts
- Creator(s): Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, photographer
- Date Created/Published: 1943 June.
- Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 4 x 5 inches or smaller.
- Part of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
- Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-031669-C (b&w film neg.)
- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html)
Other images of Gloucester, MA search 844 results containing "gloucester" :
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=gloucester&sg=true
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940
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Skatewing Racks- Lobster Bait
When the bottom is activeand the tides are running, bait tends to get washed out of bait bags within lobster traps. When a bait bag is empty it only stands to reason that the trap isn’t fishing.
Skate wing racks have membranes that run through them that hold up to strong tides much longer than soft bait like herring.
Here’s a whole buttload of skatewing racks on Toby’s boat, the Jupiter II.
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Nova News Reports On Big Ol’ lobster
Tuffy Forwarded this along to me from http://www.NovaNewsNow.com
Six-year-old Kallista d’Entremont of West Pubnico, Nova Scotia has her hands, and arms, full with a 16.4-pound lobster her father Jeff recently caught aboard his vessel, ‘On the Move.’
Usually West Pubnico lobster fisherman Jeff d’Entremont and his crew will stick a rubber band around the claws of the lobster they catch.
But one lobster he recently pulled aboard his vessel ‘On the Move’ was so big the crew had to improvise with black electrical tape around the crusher claw.
“It was the only thing that we could get around it,” d’Entremont laughs.
The lobster d’Entremont caught weighed 16.4 pounds and was about three feet, or around a metre, in length.
Asked what the reaction was when the huge crustacean was hauled aboard the vessel, d’Entremont says, “I don’t know what to tell you. We just said, ‘Oh my God.’”
D’Entremont was fishing about 58 miles offshore from the Dennis Point Wharf the day the lobster was caught. He ended up selling it. At the time jumbos were fetching $4 a pound.
“I should have kept it and mounted it but I ended up selling it,” he says in hindsight, although after the sale he did have second thoughts. “I actually changed my mind but when I went back it was sold.”
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New Underwear Look For Gloucester?
ekell78 submits-
Hi Joe
Is this the new underwear look for Gloucester?
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Gloucester At Dawn Misty Fog At Captain Joe’s 5:30AM 9/30/10
I just knew when I was taking these that they were going to be special.
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Gloucester Zen Dog and I Hauled Out Of The Water By Rose’s Travelift
Gloucester Zen Dog and I Hauled Out Of The Water By Rose’s Travelift
Ahhh Gloucester
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Damn Mainers Can’t Even Get Lobster Poo Right
Recall Issued For Lobster Poo Because It Might Be PeanutyBy Chris Morran on September 24, 2010 12:15 PM
Why anyone would buy candy called “Lobster Poo” is beyond our understanding. But we do know why the novelty food product is being recalled — there might be peanuts in that poo.
Read here for the rest of the story at The Consumerist
Thanks for sending the story along Rocko McNeill
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Tuffy 5:09AM- Tuffy 4:10PM September 23,2010
Here’s a before and after picture of Tuffy after a day of lobstering. We just finished lowering bait down onto his boat The Degelyse and took this picture. Note the how clean his white shirt is in the before picture.
BEFORE 5:09AM
AFTER 4:10PM
The reason his shirt is all dirty particularly in that spot under his arm is because that is where his oilskins don’t cover his shirt and the line from the pot trawls come up over the rails and with it sling mud and stuff all over the place as it comes through the hauling block.
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Tough! Richie Cassola Keeps Right On Hauling Lobster Gear With A Fish Hook Stuck In His Finger
It’s one thing to get a fish hook embedded into your finger and stop working to take the thing out but retired Beverly Policeman Richie Cassola strapped on a Band-Aid and kept on working ‘til the last pot was hauled.
That’s Toughness Folks! He says he kept hauling because he knew we needed the lobsters. I say it’s because he just loves being out on the water.
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Here’s the Video-
Atta Boy Richie!
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This Is What A Female Lobster Bearing Eggs Looks Like
Since it is Illegal To land an egg bearing female most of you probably haven’t seen what one looks like.
Ashley Pickett who went out for a day aboard the Trapper John sends us this picture from her day at sea-
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Good Morning Gloucester 