Category: lobster
Change and Conflict in the Gloucester Fishing Industry Featuring Wicked Tuna’s Dave Marciano, Lady Jane Skipper Russell Sherman
Molly Ferrill came down the dock last May. She also did a time lapse video from our dock which you can see below and went out lobstering for a day with Tommy Burns, the same Tommy Burns who took out Ben Grenon. You can see those videos below her latest.
Molly fared a whole lot better than Ben did aboard Tommy’s boat as you will see comparing the two videos.
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Lobster & Lace?
Fun Lobster Find! The Lobster & Lace Sweatshirt by Tibi. For $145 this would probably be your favorite sweatshirt ever (besides your GMG sweatshirt that is).
And sorry to all the burly men out there, they only have XS left in their online shop. 🙂
~Alicia
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My Next Cell Phone Case Is A Lobster
submitted by StopKickingMe and Keith Trefry-
Video at Mashable– Lobster iPhone Case is Truly a Work of Art
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Video Interview- So You Want To Be a Lobsterman Ben Grenon From NC Describes His Experience
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Patricia Walsh Sends In Photos Of The P-Town Lobster Trap Tree
You know by now I hope folks know that when I write the title of a post like –
Our Always Fair and Balanced Lobster Trap Tree Poll and Gloucester’s Lobster Trap Tree
and proceed to write-
“Don’t forget to bring your children down to Art Haven to paint a buoy to adorn the tree. That’s what separates our lobster trap tree from all those horribly disfigured monstrosity lobster trap trees up in Maine that are all built out of simply traps and cheap pre-made ribbons imported from China and manufactured in sweat shops with unfair labor practices.”
Patty was offended by the post obviously not seeing the homerism angle of it so I offered to show her what good sports we are here and to post her photos of the P-Town tree.
Here you go Patty-
In fairness I really like what they do with their lighted lobster trap buoy bloom at the top. Very nice.
That being said I’ll take our G-Town lobster trap tree 10 times out of 10.
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Our Always Fair and Balanced Lobster Trap Tree Poll and Gloucester’s Lobster Trap Tree Gets A Helping Hand From Our Awesome Fire Department!
vote in the poll mid way down in this post
Don’t forget to bring your children down to Art Haven to paint a buoy to adorn the tree. That’s what separates our lobster trap tree from all those horribly disfigured monstrosity lobster trap trees up in Maine that are all built out of simply traps and cheap pre-made ribbons imported from China and manufactured in sweat shops with unfair labor practices.
Compare our Tree decorated with heart felt appreciation for our lobster industry and hard working fishermen by sweet adoring children form the Gloucester Community to the abomination seen below-
Gloucester’s Lobster Trap Tree Decorated With Hand Painted Buoys By The Loving Appreciative Children Of Gloucester MA-
vs.
Provincetown lobster trap tree adorned with cheap imported Chinese pre-made slave labor ribbons-
Isn’t Provincetown where all the gays are? I know the gays are better than this, much more creative and artistic. Be better Provincetown, you’re not representing well here- at all.
vs.
Then you got the terribly disfigured one from Maine where it looks more like a Christmas Spike than a Christmas Tree-
Here we go folks, the third year of our fair and balanced GMG Lobster Trap Tree poll-
When our awesome Fire Department isn’t busy saving folks from horrific fires or rescuing cats from trees they make themselves available to help adorn The World’s Greatest Lobster Trap Tree With the lobster trap wire star that Russell Hobbs and his wife Melissa built back in 2009.
Yesterday was the day that Ed and the Crew from Art Haven strung the lights on the Lobster Trap Tree. Thanks David Brooks for the photos.
Lobster Trap Tree Star Built By Russell and Melissa Hobbs
Posted on December 13, 2009 by Joey C
Gloucester Fire Department Places The Star Photos From Brianmoc–
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New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Lobster Tagging Project
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department in cooperation with the University of New Hampshire is in the process of trying to identify areas in New Hampshire state waters with aggregations of large reproductive female lobsters and track their movements. Though we’ll be looking a variety of other information from this study, this is the major objective. We’ll also be tagging smaller females and possibly some males so that we can compare their movements with the larger animals and identify if they’re undertaking seasonal migrations.
We hope to tag a total of 2400 lobsters by November of 2013. Thus far (November 2012) we’ve tagged 700 lobsters and lobstermen have provided recapture information on approximately 100 lobsters. We really want to spread the word so that fishermen will call us and report tagged lobsters. This information will give us a better understanding of the movements associated with lobsters in the Gulf of Maine. As an incentive for lobstermen to report tagged lobsters there will be a raffle held at the end of 2012, 2013 and 2014, three names will be chosen each year and winners of the raffle will be given a 50 dollar gift certificate to New England Marine Industrial or a Grunden’s hooded sweatshirt.
Though we’re also very interested in finer scale movements within the State, perhaps our most interesting tag returns have come from other states. We’ve had two lobsters that were caught near Portland Maine and had moved over thirty miles. We’ve also had a few reports from fishermen in the Gloucester that have caught tagged lobsters in their traps. Below you’ll find a Google Map showing the movement of a lobster that was tagged on 9/21/2012 near the Isles of Shoals and was recaptured on 11/12/2012 near Gloucester, it was estimated that this lobster moved approximately 22 miles.
If you catch a tagged lobster, we’re interested in the following information:
Date of Capture:
Tag#:
Sex:
Latitude (Loran is fine):
Longitude:
Did Lobster have eggs:
V-Notch:
New Shell or Old Shell:
Please Call New Hampshire Fish and Game at 603-868-1095 and ask for
Joshua Carloni or just e-mail me at joshua.carloni@wildlife.nh.gov.
Thanks for all your help!
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Third Calico Lobster Landed At Captain Joe and Sons in 2012 Makes Prediction A Push
Also makes New England Aquarium’s assertion that their calico lobster was 1 in 30 million sound a bit ridiculous.
This Calico Lobster Landed today Novmber 21 By The Rockport Lobster Boat The Freemantle Doctor and Captain Mike Tupper. The Same Lobster Boat That Will Be Bringing Santa In To Bearskin Neck For Rockports Christmas Celebration!
Here is the third Calico-
It all started here with the poll we posted on June 4th, 2012-
I’m pegging the over/under on number of speckled lobsters that are landed at our dock this year at 3.
Back on June 1st The New England Aquarium declared the Calico Lobster as one in 30 Million which of course we made found of in this post-
Calico Lobster Landed At Captain Joe and Sons 6/1/12 One In 30 Million? Really?
we also had a poll in that post and took some good natured shots at The New England Aquarium’s obvious attempt to make the calico lobster they had seem like a much bigger deal than it was-
Calico Lobster Landed At Captain Joe and Sons 6/1/12 One In 30 Million? Really?
Posted on June 4, 2012 by Joey C
A couple of weeks ago the New England Aquarium took possession of a calico lobster and was touting it through their marketing efforts as a one in 30 million lobster.
Either the numbers they are using are off or we here at the dock are the luckiest lobster dealers on the planet and should be stocking up on megabucks tickets because we get 2-5 a year.
Click here for pictures of the Calico Lobster at The New England Aquarium
I’m pegging the over/under on number of speckled lobsters that are landed at our dock this year at 3.
Just another mutant to add to the gallery of blue, marbled, albino, speckled, yellow, double clawed, triple clawed and other odd lobsters landed here at our dock, Captain Joe and Sons.
Click below to see the pictures I’ve taken over the years of mutant lobsters landed at our dock.
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Video- Lobstering 101- Messing Around On The Way Home Aboard The Degelyse
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Video- The Crew Of The Degelyse Demonstrates How To V-Notch A Female Egg Bearing Lobster
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‘Nother Calico Lobster Landed At Captain Joe and Sons- November 17, 2012
Skipper Gil Mitchell Aboard The Lobsterboat Gone Fishing Landed This Bad Boy Today-
Click for larger photos
Back on June 1st The New England Aquarium declared the Calico Lobster as one in 30 Million which of course we made found of in this post-
Calico Lobster Landed At Captain Joe and Sons 6/1/12 One In 30 Million? Really?
we also had a poll in that post and took some good natured shots at The New England Aquarium’s obvious attempt to make the calico lobster they had seem like a much bigger deal than it was-
Calico Lobster Landed At Captain Joe and Sons 6/1/12 One In 30 Million? Really?
Posted on June 4, 2012 by Joey C
A couple of weeks ago the New England Aquarium took possession of a calico lobster and was touting it through their marketing efforts as a one in 30 million lobster.
Either the numbers they are using are off or we here at the dock are the luckiest lobster dealers on the planet and should be stocking up on megabucks tickets because we get 2-5 a year.
Click here for pictures of the Calico Lobster at The New England Aquarium
I’m pegging the over/under on number of speckled lobsters that are landed at our dock this year at 3.
Just another mutant to add to the gallery of blue, marbled, albino, speckled, yellow, double clawed, triple clawed and other odd lobsters landed here at our dock, Captain Joe and Sons.
Click below to see the pictures I’ve taken over the years of mutant lobsters landed at our dock.
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Video- Lobster Fishing – Meteghan, Nova Scotia
So interesting to see what they do differently and the same as our guys do it down here.
Thank You Carol McMahon For Forwarding The Link
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New Hampshire Fish and Game Lobster Tagged and Released on 9/21/12, Caught By our Lobsterman Dave Jewell In Gloucester On 11/12/12
Dave Jewell skipper of the Lady J came in a couple of nights ago and handed me this tag which was attached to a lobster and the coordinates of where he caught it off Gloucester MA on November 12, 2012.
There was a telephone number on the other side of the tag which I plugged into Google and it came up as the number to New Hampshire Fish and Game. So I then Googled New Hampshire Fish and Game Lobster Tag and came up with this result
So then contacting Josh Carloni from New Hampshire Fish and Game’s Lobster Tag program I asked him more about the program and if there was any info he could give as to where the lobster that Dave caught was released or if we could put together a google map to show how far it traveled from September 21st to November 12th-
tag 247
If you have a press release about it or a google map of where certain lobsters were released and where they have been reported, that would be something that would get people excited. anything visual has great impact.
an interactive google map would be really fun.
especially if you can put this particular lobster on there from where it was released to where it was caught.
Dave caught the lobster at Lat/Long 42.41.8/ 70.25.4
This was the info from Joshua about when it was released and the program itself-
Joey,
That lobster was tagged on 9/21 near the Isles of Shoals (42 57.186, 70 35.823), it was a female spent egger with a v-notch and it was 93.8mm. I just had someone put your coordinates into google earth and it appears that lobster moved 20 miles. If you would like to add something to your blog that would be great.We’re trying to identify areas in New Hampshire with aggregations of large reproductive females and then track their movement. It appears the Isles of Shoals area has a large number of large females with eggs and we would like to know why they are there and their associated movement. Though we’ll be looking a variety of other information from this study, this is the major objective. We’ll also be tagging smaller females and some males so that we can compare their movements with the larger animals and identify if they’re undertaking seasonal migrations.
We hope to tag a total of 2400 lobsters by November of 2013. So far we’ve tagged approximately 550 lobsters and we have recapture information from approximately 70 lobsters. A couple of lobsters have been reported travelling to the Gloucester area and two more lobsters were reported in the Portland ME area. We really want to spread the word so that fishermen will report tags when the catch them. There will be a raffle held in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and winners of the raffles (three winners each year) will win a 50 dollar gift certificate to New England Marine Industrial or a Grundens sweatshirt
Dana Johnson Created This Google Map Showing Where The Lobster Was Tagged and Released and Where Dave Caught It 7 Weeks Later After Traveling 20 Miles-
Click Map For Larger View-
My suggestion to Josh is instead of simply having a page where the fishermen can report lobsters caught with tags that he create a page with maps and info of every lobster released and caught with the names of the fishermen that caught them so they can generate more interest in the results with the fishermen as well as the general public and the people who are funding the studies.
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Do You Follow The Captain Joe and Sons Twitter Feed?
It’ the twitter feed from our dock and contains mostly heavy duty marine industrial wharf stuff.
If that’s your thing follow @CaptJoeLobster
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Video- Men At Work Offloading The Bait Truck At Captain Joe’s
It’s A Dirty Stinky Job But Somebody’s Got To Do It
Shot with the Kodak Zx3 and Kayalu nClamp
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Joe Ciaramitaro Lobster Trap Tag Found on Cornwall Beach in The UK
Chris Easton writes-
Dear Joey,
Earlier this year I found a fishing tag which I think may be yours. It reads F/V NET PROFIT 7918 JOE CIARAMITARO along the bottom. I enjoy walking along the strand line on my local beach – Perranporth in Cornwall in the UK. It is not uncommon to find flotsom from the fishing industry of the East Coast of America which travels across the Atlantic on the North Atlantic Drift.
I Googled the name yesterday & got linked to www.goodmorninggloucester.com , so I thought that it might be worth sending you a photo of the tag & a photo of Perranporth Beach, where it was found. The village is at the far end of the beach.
Hope you find this of some interest.
Yours, Chris Easton
Chris, the Joe Ciaramitaro who was a lobsterman and incredibly friendly guy on the Gloucester waterfront passed well before his time. I’m not a lobsterman, my cousin Frank and I are lobster dealers here in Gloucester MA and own a commercial dock.
After Joe passed Joe Grillo bought the Net Profit and continues to fish it today.
Here’s a post from 2009-
Joe Grillo’s Net Profit
Posted on February 19, 2009 by Joey C
Joe Grillo bought the Net Profit. His old boat The Wanderer was old, tired and slow as molasses. To say that Joe is happy about the upgrade would be an understatement. Video at 8:00AM
The Net Profit
Joe Grillo’s Net Profit, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The Wanderer
Do you see the buoys on the old Wanderer’s antenna and the Net Profit? The same, red on top, yellow on the bottom- Joe Grillo’s buoy colors!
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Video- Gloucester Zen- Tuffy and Crew Prepare To Head Out Lobstering
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Toby Burnham- The Seagull Whisperer
So yesterday this Homie was on the roof of Toby Burnham’s lobster boat The Jupiter II with a striper plug with it’s treble hooks stuck in its leg and abdomen. it was stuck hobbling around and in obvious pain.
Toby was inside the cabin oblivious to the condition of the seagull and when he popped his head out the seagull flew off the roof of the boat and onto the roof of our dock here at Captain Joe and Sons.
Toby grabbed a piece of herring and lured the injured seagull back down off the roof of the dock and just as the seagull got within striking range he snatched it by the tail and held it by it’s neck.
Then grabbing a pair of metal cutters he snipped the treble hooks to remove them from the feet and abdomen without tearing the belly out of the seagull.
Moments later he was on the deck eating a piece of fish scraps Toby fed him.
A job well done just a week after his 50th birthday.
Nice work Toby!
Nice work Toby!
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Video- Gloucester Zen Mark Lodge Baiting Up and Heading Out Aboard The Tight Lines
Minimal Editing, Minimal Sound, Just A Slice Of Time On Gloucester Harbor
click below for video
Good Morning Gloucester 