Definition of lobsterman
: one whose business is lobstering
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Like most of the lobstermen who operate in the North Atlantic, Haviland has never seen an animal entangled in his lines.
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Scientists have suggested ropeless traps that could be summoned to the surface electronically — but lobstermen balked at the prices involved.
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Scientists have suggested ropeless traps that could be summoned to the surface electronically - but lobstermen balked at the prices involved.
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Josh Mahoney, a local lobsterman, said the seawater that the center pumps into its research tanks and discharges back into the ocean has already warmed the waters off East Point, scaring away lobsters.
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While many assume Nor’easter is the name is a product of some kind of Maine lobsterman accent, that’s probably not true.
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Like many lobstermen, Chris Hodgkins, 30, who lives in the island town of Frenchboro, 30 miles northeast of Matinicus, spends the winter repairing his traps, painting his buoys and cleaning his ropes.
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By extension, the book is teeming with those who earn their living on the water: sailors, stevedores, lobstermen, shipbuilders and that particular maritime specialist prized by the underworld, the boatman who sinks bodies to the bottom of the sea.
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The founders of Lobster207 were approached by a union of lobstermen in 2013 with concerns over the falling catch prices that were threatening the industry.
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First Known Use of lobsterman
1881
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