{"id":1872,"date":"2016-01-05T21:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.petebarrett.com\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:45:31","slug":"lobster-fishing-the-american-worker-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.petebarrett.com\/?p=1872","title":{"rendered":"Lobster Fishing- The American Worker Project #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lobstah10\"<\/a>\u00a0My second installment into The American Worker Project brought me Down East to the coast of Maine in a little place called Brooklin Maine. \u00a0 \u00a0Specifically the waters off of Eggemoggin Reach just a few miles south of Mount Desert Island, but a seemingly miles away from all the crowds and tourists that one encounters when touring Acadia.<\/p>\n

I was introduced to my new lobstering friends, \u00a0Patrick and his sister Sharlene Grant, by our new friend and host Laurie,<\/span>\u00a0of Ocean Front Camping of Reach Knolls<\/a> in Brooklin. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Laurie and her husband Paul were amazing hosts and also a wealth of knowledge in assisting me with setting up several of my shoots. \u00a0 But that is a story for another post…. \u00a0Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Getting back to my exciting day of lobstering…. \u00a0 Here are a few more photos from that cold morning on the water. \u00a0 \u00a0 Scroll down below the following photos for more info on my hard working subjects Patrick and Sharlene.<\/p>\n

\"Lobstah13\"\"Lobstah05\"\"Lobstah04\"\"Lobstah12\"\"Lobstah16\"<\/a>We started out our morning early at the crack of dawn, \u00a0what turned out to be a late start compared to their normal days. \u00a0 After boarding their boat and loading up the day’s bait, we had a quick discussion about what we were going to shoot and how I can get the best shots without ending up in their way or over the side of the boat. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09 \u00a0 I couldn’t have asked for better subjects. \u00a0They \u00a0were super nice and gave me free reign on their boat to shoot whatever I wanted. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Patrick and Sharlene are\u00a0second generation lobster fishermen<\/span>. \u00a0 \u00a0Both started out at a very early age just as their father before them. \u00a0 Sharlene worked the boats off and on over the years and took time every summer to fish alongside her brother and her dad.\u00a0 \u00a0Patrick has followed in his dads footsteps and has hardly missed a day on the water in over 30 years. \u00a0 \u00a0It is hard work, but when you talk with them you see that they really love it. \u00a0 \u00a0You would have to love it to get out on some of the cold mornings… \u00a0 \u00a0\ud83d\ude09 \u00a0 It was a blustery 29 degrees Fahrenheit the day we went out. \u00a0 \u00a0Fortunately the sun was out. \u00a0 I can only imagine what it must be like when it is cold and blowing with rain added in on top of that.<\/p>\n

The job of a commercial lobsterman is hard. \u00a0 You work really long hours, \u00a0get up super early and head out to search for your bouys in a sea of what seems like millions of bouys. This task of finding your traps (or Pots) has been simplified somewhat with the invention of the GPS but finding them and hauling them in is still an arduous task. \u00a0 \u00a0Patrick captains the boat and snags and hauls in the traps while Sharlene preps the bait and does all the measuring, banding and sorting of the keepers vs the rejects. \u00a0 \u00a0Then Patrick drops the pots and the process is repeated about a zillion times. \u00a0 \u00a0All the while being soaked with freezing cold water. \u00a0 Simple right? \u00a0\ud83d\ude09 \u00a0<\/span> Watching them work was something else, \u00a0 they are like a well oiled machine. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One of the highlights of the day was when Sharlene pulled in a pot that at first glance only had two lobsters in it… upon further inspection it turned out to be one lobster that had shed its shell and left a perfectly preserved shell of its former self right next to it. \u00a0 \u00a0A pretty rare find, \u00a0even for a seasoned pro.<\/p>\n

All in all we had a pretty good day. \u00a0 While it started out slow, \u00a0 it picked up about mid morning. \u00a0 Patrick joked that it seemed like every time I would switch from stills to video \u00a0we seemed to bring in lots more pots full with lobsters. \u00a0 \u00a0Sounds like a joke but it literally happened like that 3 times in a row. \u00a0 Stay tuned for an update with our video we shot that day. \u00a0In the end we went back in to port with about 4oo+ pounds of lobster. \u00a0 \u00a0Which is a pretty good haul for about 1\/2 days worth of \u00a0lobstering at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day they sent me home with a giant bucket of\u00a0lobsters\u00a0and a few crabs and my family and I had the feast of our lives! \u00a0 \u00a0Thanks so much to them both\u00a0<\/span>for making me feel welcome and for being such great subjects!
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