There's lobster, there's groundfish. Quota cuts have been very steep in the groundfishing fleet. That's a big factor. If the government makes a cut, you're going to give somebody who works on groundfish less work. For lobster, the catch has dropped. The bulk of the lobster is caught in the first two weeks. Then you have weather storms that play a big part. Then around the first of January some boats might bring their traps back in because of the damage the weather does to the traps. The price of traps has doubled from $100 to $200 a trap. It's all cost to them, as to when they can go out, the price of fuel, and as to where they would go day after day they don't do that no more.
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