NEW BEDFORD — Jarrett Drake turns on the ignition — vroom — and the satisfying thrum of the boat’s motor suddenly swallows the quiet of early morning. It’s 5:06 a.m.
Drake, 40, a lobsterman from Marion, starts early so he has enough time to haul in his roughly 400 traps before sunset. Caffeinated soda and peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches keep him going during 15-hour days, the tedium interrupted by the thrill of reeling in a trap teeming with lobsters.
But in recent years those moments have been fewer and fewer, he said. And now, because of the dwindling lobster population, a multistate commission will begin deciding this week whether to ban all lobstering from south of Cape Cod to North Carolina for five years...
Drake, 40, a lobsterman from Marion, starts early so he has enough time to haul in his roughly 400 traps before sunset. Caffeinated soda and peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches keep him going during 15-hour days, the tedium interrupted by the thrill of reeling in a trap teeming with lobsters.
But in recent years those moments have been fewer and fewer, he said. And now, because of the dwindling lobster population, a multistate commission will begin deciding this week whether to ban all lobstering from south of Cape Cod to North Carolina for five years...
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