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 Moored at the buyer's dock. The hatches on the live-tank are opened and the crew gets ready to off-load the catch. |
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 The 'live-tank' or 'live-well'. This tank can hold a mess of lobster. Maximum capacity is about 1300 pounds. We caught only 400 pounds on this run. |
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 Rough handling can cause the animals to drop a claw. The captain scoops out lobster from the live-tank and they are carefully transfered by hand to a tote. |
 The totes are then weighed by the buyer and the price calculated according to the current price per pound. |
 Before heading back home , more bait is put on for the next day. This time we put on seven barrels of bait which fills fourteen totes - enough to bait 560 traps. Tomorrow will be a long day. |
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