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[deleted] t1_je2okkp wrote

Reply to comment by SeawolfGaming in Maine Lobstermen could face new size limits for catch by stewart0077

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Doc_coletti t1_je4u7jl wrote

Yeah I could do a time lapse of the security camera in tha parking lot of my coastal Maine business, and it would be lots of brand new trucks. A lot of guys around here do in fact buy a. New one every year. They brag about it. One guys vanity license plate actually even states it.

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SeawolfGaming t1_je2p025 wrote

Well I've lived in one my entire damn life, and can tell you that you're just wrong.

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[deleted] t1_je2tgdg wrote

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SeawolfGaming t1_je2tkug wrote

Except they don't. Show me the numbers then bub.

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[deleted] t1_je2uauo wrote

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SeawolfGaming t1_je2uzyr wrote

Ah yes 725 million, you're forgetting that there are middlemen taking large cuts of money and that the lobstermen aren't getting that full 750 million. There are also taxes involved. The numbers truly don't add up. If you want me to do the math, I will but the amount they make after tax isn't enough to afford 100k new trucks every fucking year let alone even every 5 or 10 years.

I know a lot of Lobstermen, fuck I live in the highest catching port in our damn state. I barely know any that spend money on drugs. Now go do some real fucking research instead of spreading the constant misinformation that you keep hearing.

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[deleted] t1_je2vmpt wrote

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SeawolfGaming t1_je2wqkb wrote

I'm done replying to you. You're just going to keep going like a broken record spewing the same redundant misinformation.

So let me set this straight, I can tell by how you're talking that you've never once stepped foot on a lobster vessel, nor ever actually sat down to talk to a lobsterman in your life. You just talk out your ass about what you read about but don't actually know anything about lobstermen or lobstering in general. Many of them are broke, and not due to life choices. Paying for heating in the winter, not fishing from September till about May and having to live on what they made during the summer, along with many other factors into this.

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Hefty_Musician2402 t1_je391sj wrote

Some lobstermen have money and some don’t. I’m no expert as I only worked on a lobster boat as a sternman junior year of highschool, but you gotta be making at least decent money to drop 500k on a boat (I know not all are that much, but a lot are)

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