I think the lobsterman in their boats just don’t see what’s going on down below like the divers do. They want simple, tough, zero maint. traps. And they have them! So zero maint that they’ll keep killing for years after the float and rope are gone.
These lobstermen are so stupid they are competing against 3 or 4 old lost traps for every one they have with a rope and a float. It used to piss me off so much, I’d sabotage them all, by cutting the ropes and opening the doors and tying them back.
For every trap with a float, it’s just a matter of time until the rope frays from UV and breaks, or is cut by a boat prop. Then, the traps become perpetual killing machines, for NOTHING.
I guess I’m in an extremely cynical mood today. I read the article not so much as “We’re worried about killing the lobsters” as “We’re not happy that the lobsters died and we didn’t get a chance to eat them”
I’ve done alot of crabbing and salmon fishing and one thing I know is that if something dies in the water, it DOES NOT go to waste!
That’s what all the herring and flounders and crabs and octopuses depend on!
I am very upset by the thought of the lobsters being wasted, killed for nothing. Very sad.