My View of Life on the Dock
Lobster Pulls its Tail Out of it’s Shell, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Notice the shell separate in a straight line at the top of the carapace. You can’t see it in this picture but the tail has already withdrawn from the shell. The live lobster is to the top in the picture and the half of it carapace shell is left at the bottom of the picture. The lobster is barely strong enough to move.
More pics to come and video is loading.
Lobster Molting At The Dock Image 1, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
It’s rare that a lobster will be landed, sit in our tanks over night and then in the morning go into the molting process.
It happened this morning and I captured it in pictures and video. It will take a bit to upload but look for it later.
Design and Image Trend blog put up an interesting post of a collection of pictures with lobsters being the central theme in advertising.
Here’s a link to the post. Click it to see more examples of lobsters in advertising-
Design and Image Trend :The Lobster
An example-
Here is a video from a lobsterman up in Maine showing how lobster pots get set. For the most part the smaller harbor lobstermen that fish out of skiffs might fish 2 pot trawls like the guy in this video. Most full time lobstermen that fish the outside of the breakwater will fish ten or twenty pot trawls though.
Harry Reardon’s Pink Buoys, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Joe and Jacki Mondello Head Out Lobstering, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Fathers Day Gift Idea- Eat This Lobster T shirt at The Cormorant Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
T Shirt Logo over left chest. You can get them at The Cormorant Shop across from The Lone Gull Coffee Shop.
Fathers Day Gift- Eat This! Lobster Apron at The Cormorant Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
If you are looking for the perfect Fathers Day gift, we will be open so get your orders in early if you want to give the gift of lobster to dear old dad.
As a compliment to the always appreciated gift of lobster you can pick up these aprons or an Eat This! lobster Tshirt at The Cormorant Shop downtown Gloucester.
It would make a great lasting impression for any father.
Lobstermen Truck Series – Tom Hale, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here is Tom Hale and his GMC pick up truck.
Here Tom replaces ID tags on some used lobster traps he purchased from Mark Ring. He is taking Mark Rings tags out and putting his tags in.
There are several reasons for the ID tags. Sometimes a lobster trawl will lose it’s buoys. The tags are a way for another lobsterman to identify the lost gear if they cross groundlines underwater and get the gear up in a tangle of the two lobsterman’s gear.
Lobstermen also have a certain number of traps they can set. These tags are issued from the govt. So the govt issues a certain number of ID tags per lobsterman. It is a way to make sure that lobstermen don’t set more than the allotted amount of lobster traps because each trap has to have a tag.
Lobstermen Truck Series- Tom Hale, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The Bean in her Lobster Sweater, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Snoop Maddie Mad In Her Lobster Sweater, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Lobstermen Truck Series- Joe Sanfilippo, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Joe Borge’s underwater photography can be seen at his Lone Gull Coffeehouse in the heart of downtown Gloucester. The colors are so vivid you would swear it was a painting but in fact they are photographs.
Joe Borge Underwater Photography-Lobster, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Joe Borge Underwater Photography- Sand Dab, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The Mrs shucked out this lobster meat from the lobsters that were left over from Snoop Maddie Mad’s birthday.
Lobster Meat, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Lots of lobster gear being set as the season is starting to kick into gear. Here Mark and Matt Ring head out aboard the Stanley Thomas to set some lobster gear. Those traps aren’t making any money in the yard boys. Get ’em set!
Stanley Thomas Heading Out To Set A Load, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
She makes my point about who gets to decide what is a humane and not humane way to kill a lobster much better than I do in my video interview with the salesman of The Crustastun at The International Boston Seafood Show.
Click the above link and read her stuff, pretty funny.
They were only chicken lobsters but they were just jam packed with meat! Two per person and there were still some left over.
Lobster for Snoop Mad’s Birthday, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 