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Maine has record lobster harvest (Yum)
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Posted on 02/20/2011 5:27:07 PM PST by nuconvert

PORTLAND, Maine – Preliminary figures show Maine fishermen caught a record 93.4 million pounds of lobster in 2010 valued at more than $308 million.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; lobster; maine
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To: buccaneer81

Depends on where you are I guess. Prices were lower in previous years due to demand being lower. Around here, lobsters are more expensive than maybe a chuck steak on sale, or cube steak, maybe a sirloin but less than a top kind of steak. $5’ll get a pound and a quarter lobster.


41 posted on 02/20/2011 6:31:45 PM PST by truthfreedom
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To: nuconvert

AM I the only one who would like to get enough money to start hiring fishers to hunt lobster for me? Then I keep the lobster, pay them boatloads of cash, and then munch on lobster ot my merry heart’s content? Or failing that, do it myself?


42 posted on 02/20/2011 6:35:14 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: ccmay

For years lobster was fed to prisoners because it was so cheap.


43 posted on 02/20/2011 6:35:40 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: blasater1960

Most people that eat them wouldn’t catch / kill / cook them themselves. But then again, you could say the same thing about most people who eat meat.

I have always believed that when you get hungry enough, you will eat anything. I tell that to every Vegan that I ever meet.

Hunger creates hunters, while hunters cure hunger.


44 posted on 02/20/2011 6:38:57 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (They bring a Bible to a Memorial, we bring a T Shirt - Long Legged Mac Daddy)
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To: smokingfrog
ahaha
the favorite party trick - putting the lobster to sleep - too funny to watch
45 posted on 02/20/2011 6:40:33 PM PST by maine-iac7 ('WE STAND TOGETHER OR WE FALL APART' mt)
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To: nuconvert

Can’t wait = the spring ritual: Our Lobster pound will be firing up the ovens come Easter -


46 posted on 02/20/2011 6:42:16 PM PST by maine-iac7 ('WE STAND TOGETHER OR WE FALL APART' mt)
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To: smokingfrog

LOL! Are they doing sommersaults or headstands?


47 posted on 02/20/2011 6:42:34 PM PST by MV=PY
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To: KarlInOhio

The steer pen at Kroger. That would be sweet!


48 posted on 02/20/2011 6:47:00 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: truthfreedom

For some reason they are more than that down here in Florida.


49 posted on 02/20/2011 6:47:20 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: MV=PY
LOL! Are they doing sommersaults or headstands?

they are sleeping. You rub them in a certain spot and they go to sleep - and you just stand them on their heads.

50 posted on 02/20/2011 6:49:29 PM PST by maine-iac7 ('WE STAND TOGETHER OR WE FALL APART' mt)
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To: Celtic Cross
Giant water-borne bugs.

I'll pass, thanks.

Thankee. More for the rest of us.

51 posted on 02/20/2011 6:57:58 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: nuconvert

I thought global warming was killing everything!


52 posted on 02/20/2011 7:15:24 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: SoftwareEngineer

Chaqu’un a son gout!
I love Lobster. It is,to me,the most perfect delicious food. So versatile, hot , cold, stuffed, salad, stew, We all have our own personal and
regional preferences.
We of New England ancestry love our Lobster.
I’m happy to learn the the crop was so bountiful. That means lower prices, and more people can enjoy what used to be considered a rare, expensive delicacy.


53 posted on 02/20/2011 7:20:35 PM PST by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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To: MV=PY

They fell asleep during 0bama’s state of the union address.


54 posted on 02/20/2011 7:20:45 PM PST by smokingfrog ( BORN free - taxed to DEATH (and beyond) ...)
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To: ccmay

That first cold horrible Winter, the Puritans at Plymouth Colony survived on Lobster & Clams. Half of them did not survive that first Winter.


55 posted on 02/20/2011 7:25:22 PM PST by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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To: driftdiver

sure, maybe this year, lobsters are plentiful in Maine, more scarce in Florida. Do they even have lobsters in Florida? There’s water of course, but the warmer weather


56 posted on 02/20/2011 7:32:32 PM PST by truthfreedom
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To: maine yankee

I was wondering about the “Canada” on the bands of the bugs I bought for Super Bowl Sunday. Here in rural WV we’re kinda limited in places to get live lobster. A Krogers about 50 miles away is the closest I can get them...$13.99/lb.


57 posted on 02/20/2011 7:32:42 PM PST by Roccus (Ruts are greatly under-rated, I like being in a rut, so long as I can exit at MY choosing.)
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To: ccmay
Lobsters were used as fertilizer by the Indians..

"L In colonial times, lobsters were considered "poverty food." They were harvested from tidal pools and served to children, to prisoners, and to indentured servants, who exchanged their passage to America for seven years of service to their sponsors. In Massachusetts, some of the servants finally rebelled. They had it put into their contracts that they would not be forced to eat lobster more than three times a week."


58 posted on 02/20/2011 7:34:16 PM PST by Daffynition ( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
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To: truthfreedom

We have a spiny lobster. Basically the same except no claws and I can swim out in the warm water and get one myself. (in season of course)


59 posted on 02/20/2011 7:36:02 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: nuconvert

Great news! Maybe I can get a case of lobsters this year, instead of crabs.


60 posted on 02/20/2011 7:36:05 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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