Tangled Up in Pots
Oct 16, 2018
3 minutes
I learned to sail on the Maine coast as a boy, and one of the things my elders taught me was to respect fishing gear. If you got caught up with a lobster pot, you did everything you could to get clear without cutting the pot warp. It represented a family’s livelihood and thus was sacrosanct.
I crossed a Rubicon of sorts in the late 1990s, when the lobster fishery was booming and lobster
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