Lobsters

Seagulls Surround a Lobster Boat, Half Way Rock, Casco Bay (2004)

Historically Lobsters, now a major factor in Maine’s commercial fisheries,  were once so plentiful that Native Americans used them to fertilize fields and to bait fish hooks.  According to Colin Woodward, in 1608 with the Popham Colony failing, Lobsters were everywhere. On their way to the Kennebec, Raleigh Gilbert’s men caught fifty lobsters “of great…