A lobster fisherman is tracking the productivity of a set of traps he has placed in a favorite location, keeping track of the numbers of lobsters in these traps over the course of 12 years. To find outliers based on the 1.5xIQR rule from the lobster fisherman’s data, first arrange the data, find the quartiles, and calculate the Interquartile Range (the difference between the mean, median, and mode).
In Maine, lobster fishers often use spherical buoys to mark their traps, which must be checked annually. This article examines lobster fishing productivity and provides useful tips for becoming a better fisherman. Traditional tracking involves calculating measures such as the mean, median, and mode, providing insights into the trap’s productivity.
Lotter fleets consist of open boats of between 4 and 7 meters powered by 40-65hp engines. In Belize, sloops are also used. According to the results of the survey, recreational fishing is in a less-advantaged position in terms of how their rights stack up against customary and commercial sectors.
In summary, lobster fishing productivity is a crucial aspect of understanding the behavior of fishermen, with traditional tracking methods such as arranging data, finding quartiles, and calculating the Interquartile Range. The recreational fishing sector is in a less-advantaged position in terms of how their rights stack up against customary and commercial sectors.
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I don’t think I could love this series more. Jacob and his crew seem like ethical, compassionate, and (ironically) human lobsterman. Jacob gets genuinely excited by interesting things and has a real interest in eduating his viewers about his work and the sea. I hope this continues for many years to come. P.S. I just visited the beautiful state of Maine last week and, while it was ludicrously hot and humid, a wonderful time was had. I only wish we’d had another week or two.
My grandma’s husband, my step Grandpa was a lobster fisherman he passed on his boat was missing for a few days. He had a heart attack but died doing what he loved. He always treated me and my brothers like his own grandchildren and always carried me around with me sitting on his leg and it was the best!
My FIRST job at 14 years old was on the “Betty C” out of Branford Point. Branford CT. Man what a GREAT experience!! I loved it. Ate more “mushmellons” than ever lol. Not sure if that’s what y’all call em. But when they wee soft still from molt those we could take home cuz the market wouldn’t take them like that. Man my Dad my Lobster EVERYTHING! Breakfast was lobster omelets, lunch was lobster rolls with deep fried lobster chunks, and dinner was any dozen ways. Awesome time of my life! (shortly after my life fell apart for 30 years but that’s another story for another time)
My Great Grandfather could have thrown one of those old guys back because it was too small a hundred years ago. He fished out of Lunenburg NS. My Grandmother told me she was embarrassed to have to eat lobster sandwiches for lunch everyday when the rich kids had peanut butter. She grew up to of course marry a fisherman/ships carpenter 100 years ago this year. He my Grandfather sailed on a schooner you may have heard of The Bluenose
Can you imagine the conversation between lobsters? Lobster 1: I was abducted by these huge alien god things – taken into space, they shoved a free fish into my claw and dropped me from outer space back into good honest sea. Lobster 2: Sure sure mate. A huge god from space that just gives you fish – have you been eating that white powder in those bales that float on the currents from the south?
We got to go on a combined lobster route and an offshoring fishing trip a few years ago. The guys hated throwing back lobsters most times because they would watch the sharks grab them the second they hit the water. We watched a couple lobsters with eggs on them hit the water and then you’d see a flurry of fins within seconds. They tried to fool the sharks by tossing dead lobsters and leftover bait on one side and tossing the girls out a little further at the opposite end of the boat but it rarely mattered.
Broke Back Boatin’. haha I never considered tide and having to calculate where you mark a drop on GPS, in relation to where it settles on the bottom. I wonder if lobster think we’re aliens? Awesome website! Once again, the algorithm gives me faith. It’d be great if they offered guided work days. Just to check out a “day in the life of.” Not talking about sitting around googling at other people working while being in the way, I mean helping doing the work. It would probably be frustrating for the crew though. perusal some pencil pushing greenie fumbling around with simple physical tasks.
“Enormous”? lol those lobsters weren’t even close to being 10 pounds a piece. More like 5-6 a piece so 10 pounds all together……..and I know this because In Nova Scotia we catch 10x the amount of lobster and we also are allowed to keep the jumbos. So I bring home 10-20 REAL 10 pounders almost everyday. Those are the money makers. Same as the 1-30 million. Catch one or 2 a week. In a place where there are 1200 plus lobster boats nothing is “rare” we have see it all and we see it often cuz we fish 3x more then you guys and 5x more then guys in pei and New Brunswick.
Hi! Live in Kodiak, AK! I love perusal your articles! This week is Crabfest here in Kodiak. Being a lover of the eating the little critters (crabs only! Sorry I hate lobster 🤢), I was so excited to attend! However, it turned into a very sobering experience to walk through the Festival, and only see one food truck offering crab! 😢😮 Our crab populations have been overfished and not managed very well. I am happy to see fisherman who ARE following the rules and limitations set down to sustain lobster populations for the future. Great job guys!
I watched u once talk about a lobster…. u said ur Grandfather likely caught or handled that same lobster decades prior. These Big Brothers?? May have also been hunted by ur Grandfather! 🙂❤️ I love hearing stories like that! Americas history is just so bad ass! Cant wait to hear ur son tell some in a cpl decades! 🇺🇸♥️
Jacob, I’m sure you’ll miss this so I’ll keep my eyes peeled for your next post to try again, but I’m curious…do you do any online/shipping live lobster sales? I always order live Maine lobsters for my birthday in July (I live in CT). If you do online sales or would take a phone order to be shipped for July 24th-ish to CT, I’d love to buy from you!
Based on what I could find the Lobsters like Bowie with split colors and characteristics of both sexes is actually a 1 in 50 million find. As for this one it’s actually unknown because finding one Yellow or Orange is seen as a 1 in 30 million find and completely blue Lobsters a 1 in 2 million. So what does that make this female? If she was completely split I’d throw her in with the 1 and 50 million. Also it would be awesome to see you guys find an Albino Lobster.
I think that half and half colouring is Chymerism. Specifically teragametic chymerism, where two embryos grow into a single individual. This could be why the other lobster you caught was half male and female, because the original two embryos were male and female. This most likely happens with lobsters that aren’t blue as well but you don’t notice because the colouring looks normal.
I love your articles! I live in Cape May, New Jersey, on the Delaware Bay, and we are always at the ocean, bay, or beach. These are my favorite places in the world. Your articles have such a beautiful feel to them. You seem like you’re a great captain with an awesome crew. Congratulations on your website. We love perusal your articles on the big screen lol
I wonder what the laws are like for collecting lobsters as pets and not to be sold as food. A lobster that rare could collect a very large sum from someone who would like such a rare lobster. It could even bring in more than an entire season of food lobsters considering what people are willing to spend of extremely rare pets.
A friend of my moms from her Church was on a quest to fulfill his bucket list over the past few months while fighting cancer. One of the things he was most excited to do is go lobster fishing in Maine. I told her that they should reach out to you and check out your cabins. He did get to go lobster trapping in Maine last month and just 2 days ago he passed away at 54😢
God bless all of you for your compassion and care to assist the reproduction of these highly prized crustaceans and other aquatic animals! Others would greedily take without abiding rules, laws, or compassion and not caring about depleting or make extinct the visual beauty or food chain of these unique creatures
The cusk, same as burbot? That was the fish that was full of worm? Yuk! That’s why I won’t eat cod. Many moons ago, I worked for a grocery store, in the meat dept. Every morning, I had to rewrap fish which stayed on display for 3 days. Every morning, there were worms on the cod. I pulled the worms and rewrapped the fish. I love seafood, but never had cod after that. 😬
The thought of being on one of these boats makes me so motion sick! Kudos to these brave guys bucking the elements day in and out! I almost went on a deep sea fishing boat out of Bodega Bay once upon a time, but chickened out at the last moment. Bummer, one of my friends brought back 80 pounds of Rock Cod fillets! Made me a bit jealous, Rock Cod is my third favorite fish, next to Alaskan salmon and swordfish!
Although I know a lot of people love lobster, I don’t. Can’t stand it. Don’t like the taste. Don’t like crab or shrimp either, or most kinds of fish. So, that means all the more for people who do like seafood. I do like perusal these articles, extremely interesting. Learn things I didn’t know. Love that he gives out snacks to those he tosses back into the sea. Who would want to eat something a hundred years old anyway?
I think I might have a wee crush on this here man of the see. Always wanted to see Maine in the fall…I hear it’s even more beautiful than in the summer. It’s good to see websites like this because it keeps you appreciative about the men risking their lives so some fat bastard can eat lobster 7 nights a week. Must be nice to be him. It’s nice to see that you and the lads are not causing these creatures any more distress than they’ve got coming. To the lobsters, stop being delicious and you too will live to be 100. I promise, I will never be rich enough to eat any of you, but I might eat a craw daddy.
I watch your website all the time. my grandson wants to be a commercial fisherman. or a Lobster captain like yourself. Please can you tell me any type of way to start learning?? are there a college to go to? For his. gadutation is. id like to sen him to college for and possibly finance him a ship to getr started. He is a hard worker unfortunatley his grades are only a 2.9 gpa. and he doesnt like to study . hes not cut out for a shite collar job as all his sibklings and cousins. QUEDSTIONS are how much is a decent boat and are there couseses in college to take to help him get in to the profession.?????
I hate that Maine only does chix lobstahs. I get mine from off Monomoy in cape cod where they allow 2.5-3 pounders which I think are the best flavor and texture. I do believe that all females should be tossed back. I get too many females on the cape. They should make it more difficult to harvest big females.
I can’t believe you don’t have a large salt water aquarium where you can try to breed the rare finds. Or at the least a very large custom cage where you can drop them down, feed them and have them reproduce in the wild, while safe from predators. The universe throws everyone opportunities, it’s on you to make the BEST of it. And I don’t mean kill and keep type of way. At the very least, I hope you keep DNA samples perfectly labeled and secure for the future that will come
These guy are soooo cool..But i respect these guys so much. Becuase they catch and release so many Fishes and Lobsters. Even some thhat are regulated.. But in the Asian Culute.. They actually dont release anything. Everything is edible to them.. They ‘re the biggest problem, when it comes to over fishing.
I’m going to throw this out there. You should have some type of raffle or giveaway where a person or two takes a plane to you and you take them either out for lobster and halibut or take your plane further north for muskie, salmon or trout for a few nights. I would be on the next plane tomorrow given that chance. I always wanted to do both. But it would be awesome for you because you could get some great content and be selling maybe merch or someway do a raffle drawing. I think your fans would love the article. I know I would. I bet a lot of your viewers are fishermen like me, so they would also jump on this opportunity. I mean just caught Maine lobster cooked on the shore with sea water… Let’s go! Just a little suggestion. It would be pretty cool. Take care my friend.
nice vid, but why only throw certain ones back? All animals are worthy of life, especially animals like these lobsters that are not really being killed for human survival, more just for for the tastes of wealthy people. Not a great reason to kill a beautiful creature I think, let alone hundreds of thousands of them.
I have a question… Do only older female lobsters carrier some of their young on the outside as well the inside or is it any breeding age? The local markets here, seem to sell a lot of female lobsters with eggs inside. I told my husband we have to alert the market, where we buy, that they should stop purchasing from certain vendors of the seafood, since they are not sparing the breeding females.. Am I right?
Fun fact: since most fish are caught by net we have selectively bred them to be smaller as adults so they can escape the nets. I wonder if the combo of the “that’s a big one throw it back” attitude and the fact that the biggest lobsters can’t fit into the traps might be doing the opposite? Lobsters (accidentally) selectively bred to get bigger faster perhaps?
So, i went up in some weird contraption and there was this weird fish outside the water on a big tree….he was making all kinds of weird sounds and kept moving me around with his tiny weird shaped claws,…and he had 2 of them. At some point it gave me a fish and now i am here again… So, how was your day Bowie?
Jacob and his crew show that there are real human beings out there, that do what’s right with the lobsters, they have a good time as they work their asses off, that water has to colder than well can’t write it but you know…….I hope Jacob never looses his love for his lobsters and the sea and keeps this series going for a longtime, sure would like to see his baby girl again……
So for curious minds like me I looked up how long the female have their eggs. For 9-12 months they carry them inside, then for 9-12 months they move to the outside. For 100,000 eggs only maybe 2 will survive to adult hood!! Wow…the biggest lobster ever recorded was in 1926 a 51.5 lb lobster! Sadly it was smashed in transport. Pretty interesting.
You guys are the one group of fishermen that will always have a fishery you’ll always have a market because you guys take care of it you’re not raping the sea you’re actually contributing to it you always make sure that there’s lobsters and I don’t know who started it if you started that V notch but they were smart person
Jacob — I enjoy perusal your articles especially for the information that you share with us giving us a peek into the work of a lobster fisherman. It makes me want to know more. If you can, could you please cover the following in your future articles? You talked a bit about what it costs for fuel and bait when running your traps for a day. Can you tell us what your catch has to be in number of lobsters for you to break even when you go out on the water? Since you caught a lot of eggers on your run this time, is that just luck of the draw or is there a breeding season for lobsters? Is there a season where your lobster catch is higher? Also, when you are a licensed lobster fisherman are you assigned a geographic area where you can set traps or can you go where you like? If there are assigned ‘fishing territories’ do you keep the same territory from year to year or is there a lottery drawing? Also, are there significant differences between various territories where the catch is consistently better and what makes a better lobster territory? How much area do you cover–do you measure in miles?
I feel like #2 plastic “garbage” could be shredded, melted and formed into those runners you guys use and they would be recycled and impervious to worm damage saving energy and time in repairs and if one or two were lost now and then those macro plastics would be better than micro plastics. Seems like a waste stream to usable material solution ✌🏻
Went to an International Market yesterday and they had squid, octopus, live blue crab, live crawfish and some what live lobster. “The lobster tank is broken” he says in broken English. There were more dead ones than alive 😢 Thank you for your hard work Jacob and team but I can no longer eat market lobster 🦞 Sorry for the essay 😂
I am fairly new to this website I watched a short then whoosh I have watched all of your older articles! I have always wanted to visit Maine it is on my bucket list, Maine is so beautiful you are very lucky living there, I nag my husband frequently but we are unable to go on holiday, I would be wandering around looking for my favourite author Stephen King! I love your streets with the shops either side, are properties really expensive there? ❤
Dear Jacob i’ve seen the Lobster with all of them eggies on it 😳 and it staggers me cuz you said out of all these thousands of eggcells maybe 2 or 3 actuall lobsters might make it to growing into adult lobsters ❔👁❕howcome cuz do those male lobsters get so infertile ( sterile ) 🗯🤔. Besides wouldn’t that be ashamed to let go all of them eggs 💬 because i’m thinking can’t you not make really good caviar from all those eggs. And should they not be tasty than make em tasty 😉 Imagine if your misses makes some marinade to let all of them lobster eggs in 👩🍳 and imagine if she’s good in making that kinda marinade for those lobster eggs 👁😋 well you’d be having a good new lobster caviar buisiness 🤫💫 Imagine 💸 this 💰mr Knowles ❕❕ well regards Amora Freya 🍀♎
Do you lobstering (don’t know what to call it) during the winter storms too? Keep notching and some year the legal size will go up. There’s a bay in Japan where women go air diving for oysters. They do not take the onez that look like a face on the shell; this started when ae royal prince died. Now almost all the oysters appear to have a face!! I’m a retired librarian and I sortof collect trivia.
I highly recommend you change your name to Jacob Knowles, Lobster Man. It’ll make ur website more memorable and hopefully better for the algo. Ur stuff is awesome, I hope I don’t forget and I see u again soon. Adding a playlist so even if I do your there for me to find later. Stay chill dude, hope u enjoy your coming weeks ❤
Ya know i have mad respect for the regulations and your respect that keeps lobsters alive…. But somethin seems over regulated. Im not an expert or a marine biologist or even a food critic. A: only keep middle age B: no breeders C: when does the gene pool get affected by this!?! Again im un educated and would like to be educated
A cool idea would be to show your net profit for the day… For example, right now you are down around $1470… With 250 traps to go. You need to make a little bit more than five dollars per trap if that’s the case. It would be cool if you had a little thing that showed you how close you are to break an even, and then, when you make it, etc.… If you don’t wanna share your profit, that’s fine, but show how long it took you to make it and how many traps you had left.
What y’all do is awesome It looks like the best job ever. I know it’s not as easy as y’all make it look but it’s still something you can do to provide for your family and have fun doing it even though it’s tough at times. I also like the education side of what y’all do. I never knew lobsters lived as long as they do or anything about em. We have their little cousins here crawfish. They’re small but great if they’re purged and cooked properly.
What if you threw the eggers back in the trap when you drop them, most escape anyways and it would probably keep a lot of the lobsters that do end up hatching in the same area, just for your future catches to bring in more. Not sure if this tactic is legal or right or not, just a thought I had that would hopefully increase business
Great article! Why don’t they take a percentage of the effects place them in a habitat to ensure a greater survival rate for the hatchlings? At least until they’re big enough to sink to the bottom where they avoid so much predation? That way the fisherman and lobstermen can ensure a great supply of lobsters for future generations.
By releasing the bigger lobsters wouldn’t that put an evolutionary pressure on the lobster to grow faster so that they would have a better chance to reproduce. Much like how in Alaska there a size threshold for crab catches. And studies are showing that because smaller crabs are released, they have a much better chance to reproduce, thus crabs are growing at a much slower rate than they would without this added evolutionary trait.
I suspect that a good sized fish might eat some of the ones that you throw back, as they are on the way down? Ever tried throwing back one – a keeper – with a big hook in him, and a stout line, to see if some big tuna, or shark or even a school of them, is following your boat? Wonder if there might be a way to throw them back – perhaps several at a time – in an escapable trap or something, that would allow them to get back to the bottom without being eaten?
So interesting, algorithm doing u dirty I subscribed ages ago and I only seen u again now, it’s a fascinating craft wish I could be part of it. I love how passionate you are and how you keep the breeders safe so the population can be sustainable. Hearing you say that is such a beautiful thing. Cooperation rather than decimation
Such excellent content to standards who are not from Maine but love Maine and it’s fishing/lobster industry. Everything you cover is so interesting- really loved seeing the regulatory group boarding the boat, inspecting stuff, and being appreciated in their role in the big picture. Man- love seeing someone who loves their job and loves the animals they harvest- thanks so much Jacob and your fun crew!😊
I know you said you fish 5 ft traps, what is the width and height of your traps? What is the distance between the two bridges and are the kitchen and parlor the same length? Do you ever fish any experimental traps that you have designed or somebody has loaned to you to test them out, I have some ideas?