More Women Move Into Maine's Rough And Risky World Of Lobstering
Lobstering has traditionally been considered a man's job. But Maine's lobster fleet has a growing number of women who are running their own boats, and busting stereotypes along the way.
by Murray Carpenter
Aug 02, 2017
2 minutes
It's 6 a.m. on a calm morning in Maine's Rockport Harbor, and Sadie Samuels is loading traps from her pickup truck onto her 28-foot lobster boat.
The daughter of a lobsterman, Samuels was born in a nearby hospital and has been on the water here for most of her 25 years. "I've been coming out fishing in this harbor since I was born. I came here
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