Fishermen here continue to pull their lobster traps from the water and take them to storage. All or virtually all local lobster fishing will be ended before December.
Some of the vessels will be converted into winter scallop trawlers with masts, booms, and nets; some will remain unchanged and be used as scuba diving platforms for “divers’ scallops,” and the rest will be hauled ashore for winter storage “on the hard.”
Here you see traps being off-loaded from Judith Ann in Naskeag Harbor during the misty aftermath of a severe thunder and lightning storm yesterday. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on October 22, 2021.)