This case was a fluke, they said. It's extremely difficult. News of the arrest has ricocheted up the Cape and caused outrage among lobstermen - most of whom support lobbying efforts urging state and federal regulators to develop agreeable resource management plans. And some are pointing fingers. From the time I started lobstering, it was one of the first things I learned.
Guys come to meetings and say they used to scrub.
Paul Tasha, who dives for a lobsters from Provincetown, said it's unfair to stereotype one town's lobstermen as bad and others as good. There are always the crooks and the bastards. Scrubbing is hard to prove Leaning against his old, beat up car on MacMillan Wharf on Thursday afternoon, he said he swam by 100 pounds of egg-bearing lobsters earlier in the day. One hundred pounds. Four hundred bucks.