Lobsterman nabbed

pdive · May 22, 2008

Just because I now how much the diver vs lobsterman issue riles up our blood, I am posting this article - one the lobstering concerns probably won't bring up in any future debates...

NH lobsterman fined, loses fishing license
Associated Press

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) A New Hampshire lobsterman who has been found guilty of using other lobstermen's traps has lost his commercial fishing license and has been fined $6,000.

Thirty-nine-year-old Aaron J. Marconi, of Portsmouth, also was given a suspended six-month jail sentence. His license was suspended for three years.

Marconi did not contest the charges, which stem from a year-long investigation into allegations from lobstermen that he had their traps and was using them.

Conservation officers are making arrangements to return the lobster traps to their owners.

matt_unique · May 22, 2008

It's important to have this information as an archive for examples of what we know happens with all groups.

Mr.X · May 22, 2008

I think it's somewhat bizarre to think a fellow lobsterman would be stealing traps from others. It's a rather small community...unless he had a bone to pick, or he was really, really desperate!

X

ScubaSarus · May 22, 2008

Things are getting tight for some and they may be acting desperatly. We've had some armed robberies in some very rural towns here in CT lately.

Scubakevdm · May 22, 2008

I used to work on a lobster boat. We were always at war with someone or another.

pdive · May 22, 2008

Scubakevdm:
I used to work on a lobster boat. We were always at war with someone or another.

sounds like the war still rages

Judge hears local lobstermen's accounts of harassment, threats and theft

Mr.X · May 22, 2008

Wow. This is not good. That being said, fishermen are not always PC and a hard day of workin' lean traps and drinkin' in the evening doesn't always lead to cozy feelings.

Never knew that it would get so personal within such a small community of fishermen. Maybe it's time for a new bonanza fishery - hagfish!

X

beautybelow · May 22, 2008

what does stealing traps have to do with being politically correct?

Scubakevdm · May 22, 2008

Mr.X:
Wow. This is not good. That being said, fishermen are not always PC and a hard day of workin' lean traps and drinkin' in the evening doesn't always lead to cozy feelings.

Never knew that it would get so personal within such a small community of fishermen. Maybe it's time for a new bonanza fishery - hagfish!

X

I think that in the face of threats from outside of the fishing community there is a certain amount of banding together, but in the absence of this, there's a fair amount of squabbling going on. At least there was. It seems that the industry is becoming more and more scientific these days.

munromh · May 23, 2008

Mr.X:
Never knew that it would get so personal within such a small community of fishermen.

Fifteen years or so ago I new a guy on Long Island who started lobstering on his own after working on someone else's boat. He "lost" a bunch of traps the first week, his solution, he spent the day cutting the buoys off everyone elses pots .... he was never bothered again.

Yup, no territorial in fighting there.

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