To go out on a day to set traps, which they will do Monday, weather permitting, is $1,000 or more. Some boats will be overloaded, which is dangerous; we've seen it before. Last winter, a guy was lost overboard.
There's the price of traps, and the price of bait has tripled with the shortage of ground fish, which is used for bait in the lobster industry. Since there isn't much of that around, the price has tripled.
I wouldn't want to guess. In a month, bait is $6,000 and fuel is about $10,000. In terms of traps, if they get caught in a storm and don't get them in, that's more expense bringing the traps back in when a storm's coming. You don't want them smashed and ending up on the beaches.
Yes, lobstering is very costly.