2014 Maine lobster festival is underway, with theme focused on fishing families
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Bangor Daily News] by Christina Lemieux (opinion) August 1, 2014
The 2014 Maine Lobster Festival is under way and culminating this weekend, and folks from all over the world are descending on Rockland to celebrate America’s favorite crustacean. This year, the organizers of the festival decided to recognize the families behind the industry with their “Lobster Livin’ ” theme. It made me reflect on the familial aspects of lobster fishing and inspired my August article for Landings Newsletter which I have published below. Enjoy!
I was so pleased to see that the organizers of this year’s Maine Lobster Festival chose to honor Maine’s hard-working lobstering families with their festival theme, Lobster living—Celebrating the families behind the industry. Lobster fishing is, and always has been, a family affair. For every lobster fisherman out on the water, there is usually a wife back home who packed his lunch, painted his buoys and after whom his lobster boat is named. There is also often a son or daughter who spends his or her summers working with him as a sternman.
This was the case in my family. My father was always the captain—of the business and the vessels—but my mother, my brother and myself each played crucial roles ...
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