Definition of lobsterman
: one whose business is lobstering
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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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As Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys, the damage will keep commercial fishermen, lobstermen, and stonecrabbers ashore for the season, Putnam said.
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On Monday, Miami Waterkeeper released county emails showing that a lobsterman had reported the leak in an outfall pipe at the Central District water and sewer treatment plant in 17 feet of water within a mile of Virginia Key last August.
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On a recent Friday, Michael Hanson, 54, a lobsterman who went 15 years without seeing a dentist, was sitting in the community health clinic near Maine’s Acadia National Park.
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First Known Use of lobsterman
1881
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