Bill Rowe Jr and Sr Head Out Lobstering Aboard The Bunny R, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Bill Rowe Jr and Sr Head Out Lobstering Aboard The Bunny R
Category: lobster
Heading Out-Mark and Matt Ring Aboard The Stanley Thomas
Mark and Matt Ring Aboard The Stanley Thomas, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Dead Fish As Bait
With the price of just about everything a lobsterman needs to go lobstering going through the roof including fuel, traps and bait, many lobstermen have turned away from costly herring and have been trying alternative bait such as fish racks. We don’t provide fish racks for our lobstermen. They will go and source them at local fish cutting operations such as Pigeon Cove Whole Foods on Parker Street.
Dead Fish As Bait, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Peter Mondello’s Lobster Gauge
Notie that Peter has a float attached to his lobster gauge? I wonder how many get lost overboard without the float.
Lobster Gauge, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This is how you measure a lobster from the Massachusetts Division of marine fisheries-
How to Measure a Lobster
Carapace length measured from rear of eye socket parallel to the center line of the bodyshell to the rear of the bodyshell. All lobsters measuring less than the minimum legal carapace length must be returned to the waters from which taken. All lobsters must be measured immediately.
Carapace length measured from rear of eye socket parallel to the center line of the bodyshell to the rear of the bodyshell. All lobsters measuring less than the minimum legal carapace length must be returned to the waters from which taken. All lobsters must be measured immediately.
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Hermanos- (a very short lobster story)
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Matt Cooney- Lobsterman Getting Ready To Work On A Pile Of Traps
Matt and his son have been working in the yard on a pile of traps for a while now. New traps can cost close to $80 so when you can buy decent used traps you can save a good amount of money. The used traps that lobstermen usually buy need to be “gone through”. Gone through meaning- the knitted heads may need repairing, the wooden slats on the bottom of the trap may need to be replaced to protect the bottom of the trap from wear, the escape vents might need new hog rings to keep them secure or the trap might just need to be brushed off from dead growth.
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Gloucester Zen- July 28, 2009 Gloucester Harbor Video
Minimal Editing- Minimal Commentary- Just A Slice Of Time On Gloucester Harbor
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Beautiful Industry Hydro- Slave Pot Hauler
Beautiful Industry Hydro- Slave Pot Hauler,, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Just Some Of The Things A Commercial Fisherman Might Get At Rose’s Marine Shop
Lobster trap rope, flag markers, gaffs, bait bags, buoys.
Rose’s Marine Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The bait bags that come on a spool like the green ones above arrive in one long tube of mesh. The lobstermen cut the desired length, bunch up an end and then clamp it to make a mesh-like purse. Then they stuff the herring or pogies in the bags and set them in the lobster traps.
- Orange twine pre-made bait bags
The orange twine pre-made bait bags shown above are much more heavy duty than the green plastic bait bags but are also way more expensive. In the winter when the seals show up many lobstermen will switch over to the orange heavy duty bait bags because the seals rip the green ones right out of the traps to get the bait inside. The orange bait bags hold up much better against the PITA seals.
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Best Of North Shore Award For Best Place To Buy Lobster- Captain Joe and Sons
Well the People Have Voted and Captain Joe and Sons took home the Readers Choice Award for Best Place To Buy Lobster On The North Shore! WOOT!
I had promoted on these pages that people vote for their favorite local business in the North Shore Magazine annual award nomination process but never once did I lobby for anyone to vote for us for anything. You can see the post where I asked people to vote for their favorite local restaurant, bag shop, brewery, and many many other listings here- that May 29,2009 GMG post
Thanks so much to anyone who voted for us!
Best Of North Shore Award For Best Place To Buy Lobster- Captain Joe and Sons, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Lobster Bowls And Platters With Virginia Townsend Video
At Local Colors- Downtown Gloucester
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Virginia Townsend Represented At Local Colors
When stopping downtown as I try to do every morning to get my coffee and get the scoop from Janice at headquarters (The Cormorant Shop) I saw Virginia Townsend zipping across the street with a lobster platter and bowl.
Lobsters- art- ding ding ding! Blog Material!
Virginia Townsend Represented At Local Colors, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Check back at 1PM for the first part of my video interview with Virginia.
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Gloucester Seafood Display Auction- Grey Sole
Here’s some grey sole at the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction.
Gloucester Seafood Display Auction- Grey Sole, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Within the first couple of years with my wife we were sitting at her parents house and somehow the topic of fish came up. My mother in law told me she didn’t like flounder, but she loved sole. I told her that sole is a flounder. There’s a lot of people who don’t really know their fish. I must admit as much fish as I’ve eaten in my lifetime if someone fried a fresh haddock or a cod fillet I’d have a hard time distinguishing the difference (and I’ve eaten tons).
My personal favorite types of fish in order of preference- fried whiting, baked haddock with the breadcrumbs, raw tuna, fried grey sole or yellowtail flounder, sockeye salmon.
Favorite shellfish- The Mrs’ Lobsterolls, steamed lobster with bernaise dipping sauce, baked stuffed littlenecks with my mothers’ stuffing recipe, Mexican Campeche brand shrimp with cocktail sauce, fried clams, mussels fra diavolo (extra spicy).
Look for part two of the video from the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction at 8AM
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Rob and Kristin Parsons Lobster Rolls
Rob and Kristin Parsons submitted these photos of their lobster rolls. While I give high marks for the omission of lettuce, celery and other filler, the buns seem to have been left on the grill pan just a tad too long. A little more lobstermeat and a little less time on the grill would bring these lobster rolls into the upper echelon of lobster roll presentation.
you can check out Rob and Kristen’s blog by clicking this text
Rob and Kristin Parsons Lobster Rolls, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Salmon Racks Aboard The Jupiter II
Fish racks make excellent lobster bait. When the tides are running the racks hold in the bait bags much longer so the lobsterman knows his gear is still fishing when other types of bait may have washed out of the trap.
Salmon Racks Aboard The Jupiter II, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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The Stanley Thomas and Dog and I Getting Ready To Go Lobstering
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The Stanley Thomas and Dog and I Getting Ready To Go Lobstering, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Dog and I Heads Off Into Fog Video
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Lobsterman Mark Ring Silhouette and Rainbow On The State Fish Pier
Mark Ring Silhouette and Rainbow On The State Fish Pier, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Blue Tinted Lobster
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Lobster Molting Video At Captain Joe and Sons
watch a lobster pull itself out of it’s exoskeleton
Good Morning Gloucester 