King_O_Walpole

King_O_Walpole t1_iyndwit wrote

I love all you SJW thinking I’m against conservation.

99% of lobsterman are more conservationist than you soapbox preachers.

We follow the rules, even when they are flawed, and voice our opposition against the flawed “models” scientists use.

I’m sorry but I’m not gonna be swayed by a nerd in Oklahoma who stares at a computer all day working for the feds and comes up with “lobster is overfished”. Boots on the ground experience says otherwise.

Are lobsters numbers going down, yes, due to the warming of the gulf of Maine. No rules or regulations will change that.

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King_O_Walpole t1_iyn8kg0 wrote

There is no concern due to the regulations, which are in place for conservation efforts.

You’re a special kind of soap box warrior.

My families been fishing for over 100years. Lobster, scallops, shrimp, halibut, clams, periwinkles.

I know for a fact I understand the situation better than most, I lived it my entire life. It is in my blood.

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King_O_Walpole t1_iyn5nhk wrote

Dude over fishing of lobster is not a concern at all in Maine

Maine has the best conservation rules in place for any industry.

If overfishing kills the Maine lobster industry it’s because NH and MA allow landing of what Maine considers illegal lobsters, oversized and egg bearing.

The Darling Marine center has proven this.

Climate change will impact where lobsters migrate just like the shrimp! It’s not over fishing in Maine it’s climate change.

No more regulations are needed.

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King_O_Walpole t1_iyco8ta wrote

Depending on the year, you can cut a tennis ball in half and place around the outside key entry. If you cut it well and it can seal to the door, you can press the ball acting like a plunger. This can force enough air into the hole to pop the lock open.

I’m not saying it’s gonna work, but’s it’s easy to try

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King_O_Walpole t1_ixlnsyt wrote

Thank you.

As a midcoast Mainer I thought priority group owned nearly all the land on the base and is the group in charge of developing it or selling/leasing for development.

I think even Brunswick residents would agree the base is the perfect place for new multi-family housing.

I mean just in the past few years a whole condo complex sprung up just as you enter off bath road. Looks like another is on its heels too!

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King_O_Walpole t1_ixi34jl wrote

Your opinion is bullshit.

The lobsterman are scapegoats/low hanging fruit so the government can “appear” to actually be doing something.

Where are all the new regulations on cargo/oil ships that strike and kill the most whales?

Lobstering has minimal impact on right whales, that is a proven fact.

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King_O_Walpole t1_it1vlv7 wrote

Not a concern of over harvesting in Maine. Our lobster fishing regulations are the best, it’s the NH and MA fisherman who are allowed to land oversized lobsters, lobsters caught as by catch, and do not honor the v-notch/egg filled lobsters the same way we do.

Maine does it right, the other states give a huge middle finger to Maine with their regulations

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