’Tis the season to give thanks for … lobster

sorry thanksgiving is gobble gobble day in my book....

I would take lobster over turkey any day, bring it on. On Thanksgiving I will be eating a day old Subway sandwich. I bet no one can top that.

Maybe that would stop the whinning along the coast

Kylie if your income was cut by 50%+ you would complain too. How about some empathy

Let’s host a lobster dinner..........Not at $15.99/lb here in Orlando !!!!

Saltair is more than right here, Kylie. Losing 1/2 their income would hurt anyone.

kylie00...what a nasty remark...i come from a fishing family and believe me they are hurting...these small coastal towns depend on the fishermen to keep their towns going...if you dont know what its like to be a fisherman (they all dont make megabucks like you might think) i suggest you shut your trap!!!

oh snap!

Munsey, "who spent many a childhood summer digging clams and having lobster bakes at her grandparents’ retirement home in the coastal community of Lamoine". Sounds to me like she can afford the lobster. Maybe being a "beer retriever" at the Whig N Currier for years paid better than I thought. Good luck with the idea, but I think on a treadmill and going nowhere fast.

And I heard on the news this morning, they are shortening next years scallop season and the drags have to have 4 inch rings in them. Yikes. Most fishermen I know urchin, scallop and lobster. Even more tough times coming, if you can imagine.

Here in northern Maine where lobster is still $12 - $14 a pound it looks like a Butterball Thanksgiving again this year.

I think what she is doing is very honorable for I think that some have missed the point...She is doing this to help the families of lobsterman...Maybe with her efforts she will be making it possible for them to buy a turkey for thanksgiving!

When gas prices were high why wasnt we all out buying gas for the truckers.

I have lobster fisherman in my family, but still what a joke

Well I for one couldn't afford my own gas so no, I wasn't buying anyone else's..I'm sayin that if someone is able to help someone less fortunate than I applaud them..

The price of lobster has been crazy high for a couple years, and now it's back down...though still a bit too high for me. I usually try to have lobster at least once every year, but the price had been just too high, and now with the high price of other food, even the lowered price is still a bit out of reach. It seems to me it all has to do with supply and demand. Demand was up and prices skyrocketed. Demand is dropping, so prices are dropping. I think that canning and shipping was often done locally, but in the past 10 years or so that has been bought out by big companies. Maybe there's a way the lobstermen can get together and bypass the middleman to sell their product, at least here in Maine. I feel compassion for the lobstermen, but I think they just overpriced their product and are now reaping the harvest.

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Lobster on Thanksgiving may not be such an odd idea.

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After all, Thanksgiving started in New England.

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ChrisM...Its not the lobstermen that have overpriced the product, its the restaurants and grocery stores. They're the ones that have more than tripled the price paid to lobstermen to make a pretty penny off the consumer.

It will be an incredible day when we see folks giving thanks and celebrating holidays without promoting the needless killing of other living beings against their will.

The future of ocean harvest will be in various seaweeds and other sea vegetables, which are much healthier, less violent, and more sustainable than lobster, fish, etc, and will fetch a decent income as well. Let's help our working fisherman diversify and transition in that direction, instead of clinging to the past.

Nut

You find me a piece of seaweed that taste as good as lobster with the same texture. Or a sea cucumber that taste as good as a nice rare rib eye.

Then we'll talk. Till then, play in your garden and be sure to where orange. As for me and my family, we will eat meat and/or any other previously breathing creature we can find, that tastes good.

typo: wear

FRENCHY, go eat a couple of pine cones and was it down with a six pack. That will be your eight course dinner, and make you a happy camper.

Frenchy, if you want to play that game- Who says seaweed and sea cucumbers want to die? who says lettuce and other vegetables want to die? Being ripped from the vine might be extremely traumatic. Maybe we should all stop eating for good and see where that takes us.

Do your research, There are only six permits in the state of Maine for Sea Cucumbers, two of which are being used annually, If there are only TWO, or lets say THREE, Permits active in the state, how are the thousands of lobstermen who will be displaced because of your "future theory" supposed to make a living? With so few permits available, if they were to be sold, the price would be outrageous, Im talking in the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars.

FRENCHY, sea cucumbers are echinoderms, like starfish they are not vegetables but FISH. as a matter of fact very tasty and considered a delicacy in most markets of the world. Voila!

poor poor lobster fisherman. The majority of them are greedy as all get out anyway. They desewrve to feel like the majority of washington county feels like even though we work poor

Hey frenchy, why don't you get some of that red hot snapper! liberal!

downeastIdiot, your name says it all, very funny!

Why does the BDN always run a new article about the same thing they ran the day before? Yes, some new information was added but it's the same story that was posted yesterday with some new fluff. Is the state of Maine so boring we need to have a second article the next day because nothing else happened?

They do this all the time and sometimes within a matter of hours. The first article is only seven links below this one. That is sad, very, very, very sad.

I still refuse to eat the cockroach of the sea though. They will eat anything, even each other and I know a lot of people love them and what you desire to eat is your choices, more power to you, enjoy it if you desire it but I want Tom Turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Not a cockroach from the sea.

I even eat their crap.... tamolie..guess I'll never go hungry.

I bought lobster on the coast of NH, back a month ago, very good by the way, they were in between soft and hard, they had a nice blue tint on the under side, very good sign of a good lobster!!! $4.49/lb. Bought 8 of them, they were almost 2 lbs each. Well worth the money!!

I hear in the same region they are going for 2.99/lb. Have to check it out!

Frenchy:

It's one thing to voice your opinion, but dont' push vegan done peoples throats! You don't eat meat, or anything regarding animals, fine.....there are people who do. And, thats ok!! You eat you tofu, soy beans, sea cucumbers and whatever!! It's all good. BUT, there are people who like unlike yourself, like meat, fish, dairy, pork (hey now, pork rules). That don't really don't give a damn. They want meat!!! So, you eat your soy burgers we will eat our beef burgers.......after all it's a personal choice , right??? So, lighten up!! anyway....Where's the BEEF!!!!

(sic) On 11/20/08 at 11:54 PM, justacommenter wrote:

Frenchy:

It's one thing to voice your opinion, but don’t' push vegan done peoples throats. (end sic)

This is off topic but this is how I feel when the religious people post their opinions and try to tell me what I should do and think. Don't force your opinion and thoughts down other people’s throats. Some love the cockroach of the sea, others do not. If you want a cockroach from the sea for dinner, eat it. It's your choice.

Some keywords for everyone out there (sic) after all it's a personal choice , right???

downeast idiot...your name fits you well...the fishermen arent greedy they are just trying to make a living just like every one else...ARE YOU????? and by the way are you feeling poor???...if so get the h*** out of washington county , leave the POORRRRRRRR fishermen alone!!!

LOL....So...whats your point dear!!!

"downeastidiot" contrary to what you believe, NOT ALL FISHERMEN ARE GREEDY! Hell, I've never met a fishermam who was "greedy" only ones that strive to be successful, like every other type of business person. I call those CEO's that took bailout money to go on a 400,000 dollar vacation GREEDY. And if you were to work more than 120 hours a week in a very physical and demanding job, you wouldn't want to reward yourself with that truck you've always dreamed about having? or a nice house for your family? I did.

''Islander111'' 120 hours a week is alot, that averages out to less then 7 hours off a day. I still think its a racket.

mmmm, i love to get me some red hot snapper in the morning!

Not all of them a greedy no, but there are a great majority that are. When there planning to have a day off, but find out another fisherman is going, they change all plans and head off to sea. Cant let someone get more than them. Going on the water and enageringtheir lives when the wind is blowing like crazy, its greed

So what if fishermen are competitive? This is the time of year when fishing is best and the bulk of the yearly income is made. Getting up at 1 or 2 in the morning and hauling all day and not getting home until 7 or 8 oclock at night, sleeping for a bit and doing it again the next day is normal for alot of people. Going out on the water when the wind is blowing isnt always a sign of greed! What about those men and women who go out because they need to make their mortgage? or their truck payments?? And dont says "its the fishermen's fault for taking out the loan in the first place" The banks are just as much at fault, if not more, for giving out the "high risk" loans. It seems that, In your eyes, they're all greedy and lower than you so I guess there isnt any point in arguing over this. Like others have stated on other articles, "If you don't like the way things are going in your area, MOVE"

Frenchie: Remember while you are eating your bark dinner this thanksgiving that the tree it came from is a living thing. are you sure you arnt hurting it?? Enjoy.

Many people do this already.. I have a co-worker that does this every year, no matter what the prices are. To each their own. Not all people like turkey. Some people have chicken, some people have ham.. it's their own choices.

These men and women risk their lives to earn a living in a few months in what it takes most of us a year to do. So why do you (DownEastIdiot) care if someone works 18hrs a day to do it? How does that effect you? Doesn't! Oh-wait, it may in fact effect you in that it's one less person in Washington County that isn't on MainCare or Foodstamps to feed his family(taxes?!?) And when did the success of our local fishing industry=greed? I don't see any local lobstermen living in mansions in my town. In fact, I see more and more boats being sold everyday.

what a bunch of judgemental people. Be happy that the prices of lobster have gone down. i read the article and checked for lobsters on line at Cap Morrills $60 for 1.5 lb. Too expensive for me. Someone want to ship me some? Sorry I guess you are all to angry for that.

Oh my, funny how people can get worked up over crustaceans. relax, eat whatever you want, fast, whatever.

Downeast Idiot: Your just jealous that the fisherman are actually working hard for a living instead of sitting in front of a computer screen all day, collecting welfare like you!! Ha ha, you truly have lived up to your name.