Weather. H urls into whether sportfishing,iv all different types of fishing. But i but fatigue is often a factorbiggesfactor. And whether is the biggest factor. Bria cspan how many friends have you lost over the years from phishing . But ere guest nearly a dozen. When you hear about someone going down are being lost at sea you may not know them, but you do feel some connection. 21 years. Why do you fish . Guest im passionate about fishing and people ask me what you like about it i like the way that i feel that my nasty. Cspan where did you start . Guest at the time it was a summer job to pay my way through college. I went to Colby College in waterville maine. Cspan this book is one for you . Guest book number two. Cspan what was the number one and when did it come out . Guest hungry ocean published in 1999. Cspan about . Guest the book is structured around a 30 day fishing trip to the grand banks of newfoundland. What is your relationship with the storm movie . Guest most people recognize my name as the woman that survived the perfect storm. I was the captain of the andrea gail sister ship. Most people make the perfect storm connection very quickly. I was running that of the last six years i swordfish and because of the book people were asking how did it change your life and the event didnt change my life a great deal that the book by sebastian changed my life. I started because of a very generous portrayal of me in that book, started getting a lot of attention from the media and got attention from publishers. Cspan what year did you start writing lacks guest is typically one year so i started in 1998 and they crashed in 1999. Cspan in august or because number two on the New York Times bestsellers list. Did you ever think that would have been . Guest i was surprised and thrilled. Cspan white mac like you think that this is happening . Guest i have a theory people are interested in hearing nonfiction written by someone who has done what they are talking about because they get so many people saying they felt like they were on the boat with me and they fought like it is a very genuine story and people sign the league could seem to find it refreshing. Cspan its enormous. The number of places youve gone. Guest it was supposed to be two months taking me from 60 bookstores and now its being extended so im going to go home for a little while in september and then go back onto her for maybe a couple of weeks in october. Cspan how is the crowd . Guest ive been surprised not so much in maine. Its my home state i was anticipating support and ive got enough that i have been and pleased with the support outside of maine. Cspan white you think they are coming out at the bookstores, what are the first couple of questions they ask . Guest dot Everybody Knows the commercial fishermen. The people are generally interested in that. The first couple of questions people are interested in how did you go from college to phishing and how did you go from fishing to writing. Cspan what is the chapter about . Guest exam and airmen for a young man that showed up on the island of looking for work asking for a job. I didnt mean a stern man because my dad works for me. But this kid was persistent. You dont even have to pay me. Its been my lifelong dream to go fishing that immediately through the course of of maybe a month of having him work for me i discovered things about him that arent that good and so he fooled me which wasnt the most pleasant thing that host how did he fooled you . Guest i liked him and he was a great worker and a nice person and in the end it turned out he wasnt such a nice person to be stood up its hurtful to put confidence in someone and hired them and have them be a noshow. He was very handsome. He was in his early 20s. Cspan where did he end up . Guest he ended up stealing my vehicle i have on the mainland and disappeared for a couple of days and word got to him but i wasnt very happy and he never showed back up to work after that. Cspan where is the island . Guest is 7 miles off the mainland coast of maine. Cspan how do you get their . Guest to get to the island you have to have your own boat or travel by mail boat which has a contract with the Postal Service to bring it back and forth so its not the easiest place. Its a beautiful island. The people are great. They are quirky. We are a bit of a mod group. Cspan is there anybody named rita in actuality . Guest i used her real name. People always ask about her end of the way she got into my book. I missed two thirds of the way through and my editor called me you cant love everyone. Youre not going to have credibility. Isnt there anyone out there that you generally dislike and i said yes. And i wrote more than he cared to hear about this character. She was one of my closest neighbors for the first two years that i was back on the island and she was a major nuisance. She would come over uninvited. She would be in my house using the telephone without permission and after time and time again dont come in if we are not home it was sort of hard to deal with. Islanders are very noncontroversial. We dont like conflict. So its easier to allow somebody to. Cspan whatever happened to her . Guest she moved off the island less than a year ago and lives on the mainland. Im sure annoying somebody else now. Cspan what do people do in a situation like that when you are very close . Guest for the most part nobody says anything. Nobody wants to confront anybody. Its easier to sweep it under the rug or ignore it. But you would certainly never wants to make waves or mention it to someone. Its a small closeknit community that most everyone is aware of whats going on. Cspan the main reason that we wanted you to do this program was kind of a sub theme in the book its not prominent but its regulation and above all fishing and lobstering and a couple of things that directly affect the estate standpoint. The lobster pot itself tells how you make it up. Guest there is a size restriction and there is these escapes for the lobsters to get out of. Its all very legal. They have restrictions on what you can put in the water. Cspan who tells you the lobster has to be a certain size . Guest there are federal and mainstage regulations that im governed by the state of maine. Guest somebody wants to be a lobster fisherman how do they start . Guest its hard to start right now because there is a moratorium on the licenses. That is relatively new. Maybe the last four or five years that come into effect so you have to be an apprentice apprentice for writing gets three years and give a lot of paperwork and have marine natural people sign off on all of the days that you spent as an apprentice before you can. Cspan do you have a licensed . Guest i have a mainstage license since i was a kid and i renewed it every year i kept my lobster license so when i decided tonight was all set. Cspan what does it cost to have a mainstage lobster license . Guest the license i have is 217 for the season, so its not a great deal of money. Cspan company are there in the state of maine . Guest thousands. I wish i had the exact number. There are people that make their only living where most of their income catching lobsters. Cspan how many women are there . Guest not very many. They have their own boats boat like myself and there are more and more men and women that work in mr. The boat for a father or boyfriend or uncle. Cspan white you need a stern and . Guest you get a lot more done. You can haul a lot more. If somebody is picking the traps or taking the lobster out we put the date in. It goes a lot better and its a lot safer. Fishing alone is dangerous if something happens. I think fisherman in general are democratic by nature. Its a selfsufficient group. Its about the ultimately being selfemployed. Cspan what else is controlled . We are talking about where you catch the lobsters. What about the boat size . Guest its not controlled by the license. In other fisheries it is because the federal license for the groundfish is by the size of the boat. Some would be too expensive and somewhat be too small because you couldnt do the work. Cspan what about the size of the lobster . Guest in the state of maine we have a lobster measure that has two sides. One size measures to make sure that its big enough and the other side to make sure that its not too big so what is undersized it is undersized and oversized survey gets thrown back to the very small obviously gets thrown back. Cspan what is the size that you can keep . Guest i dont know what the exact measurement is and i wouldnt dare to say because i would be off one way or another. Cspan is plus 5 inches at the body of the lobster. Guest that is the length of the body measured from the eyesocket to glare at the end meets the tail. Cspan why does it change all the time . Guest if changes every time a lobster sheds it grows anywhere from up to half an inch. Cspan does the state changed the length of their measurement every time . Guest its been increased so they have to be better to keep which is good for conservation and further reproduction of the lobster. It keeps it healthy. There are state agencies that control all the fisheries. There isnt like a lobster person that the main marine resources. The observers go on to do studies for the state and they also are marine patrol people to make sure everyone is in compliance. Its not unusual to be boarded and make sure that you are not keeping undersized lobsters because it is illegal to do so. Cspan what would have been . Guest if it is a first offense you may get a fine. Second or third you could lose your license which would be devastating for someone trying to pay bills and raise a family. If you lose your license you are out of business. Is there a regulation on how many traps . Guest is an 800 trap limit and different zones in the state are in several. We are about 800 but there are others that have committed to a smaller. They fish finished 600 for instance have a maximum. You can only fish six days a week. Cspan why is that . Guest i think theres no fishing on sundays to keep some of the part time out of it. A sort of protect us from the people that are making all of their living. Its hard for someone to put a lot in the water if they have one day to fish which would be saturday. Cspan how many are you allowed it to catch . Guest there is no quota. Only on the number you can fish and the hours you can fish them. As many as you can get in those hours and in those days. Cspan in normal time begins when . Guest daylight would be normally when you would go to get the date of the word about and as soon as you can see the first you should be hauling. Cspan what time do you get out when you have to hit the first flight saves the early part of the summer, 4 30 in the morning, what time . Guest 4 30 shake my father out, shake my father out of bed to have some coffee. Normally we try to hold 200 today and thats not a really long day. Thats a pretty comfortable day. We start early and we are done by two or three in the afternoon. Cspan when you say hall what do you mean . Guest the traps from the bottom of the ocean getting aboard the boat to bait them and sent them back. How heavy is the traps . Guest one is around 30 pounds. They come in different sizes and configurations. We have breaks to make sure they landed right side up or down on the bottom of the ocean and some people believe anymore and some people believe in fewer. I like smaller traps because they are easier for me to handle physically. Cspan what is the largest in the state . Guest 4 feet long. Cspan what is the smallest . Guest there isnt a limit to how small that its advantageous to fish the biggest track you can because there is more room in a trap for lobsters. Cspan when did you write the last word for the buck what was the date do you remember . Guest which was this past march. Cspan march of this year. And of the season that you are writing about your you said is a rotten season. Cspan im writing about my first lobster season because the first part of the book is about going home after being gone for 17 years. Im writing about my first season. It was a slow start. It did get good but then something happened and i sort of lost interest in the season so it was terrible for me. Cspan what year was it that you are writing about . Guest it would have been 1996. Cspan how did you recall all of the stories . Guest most of it was from memory. I dont keep a diary or a journal or anything like that but when i started writing the book i have been fishing for four years so i know the basic. We have to get ready. We will not catch anything early in the season. I write it did get good at one point and so i knew the structure is going to be the lobster season which i was familiar with. Cspan when does a lobster and fish . Guest where i fish it is basically may through december 1 but the bold are caught in september october. Cspan and what happens with months . Guest basically july through october we are catching the soft shell later in the season and earlier we would be catching more softshell which are the ones that are very full of meat. Cspan what do you get paid on a normal basis for every kind of lobster that you bring, do you have a coop . Guest we have the island lobstermen association. Right now we are catching mostly shutters. The prices are down 3 a pound. Later in september the price will drop a little bit more simply because there are more lobsters being caught in a lot of the seasonal places are closing down the time of year. Cspan if you are a lobster eater in the country whats the best time to order a lobster and what is the worst time . Guest dollar per pound you are better off getting a hard shell lobster. Its more expensive because they are less abundant because of the weather and the seasons there are not as many so its more expensive but its packed into the show so youre getting more for your money. Personally i like the softshell lobster. If im eating them at home i wouldnt eat one in the restaurant because i would make a mess. I would rather eat three or four. Its sweeter they are easier to get into. Cspan the last year you can remember the statistics on how many are caught in the state of maine. Guest i couldnt even begin to tell you. Cspan i seen a figure. The two figures, one is 300 million into the lobsters were sold in the last year and 57 million. Guest i was going to say probably a Million Pounds would be great. So the 3 milliondollar figure would be 300 million. Maybe after its gone through a few middlemen but not to the fisherman. If they are getting 3 a pound of the consumer isnt getting a good break on the lobster. Somebody is making money along the way. Cspan what do they make an eightyear . Guest they make a good living but hes earning it coming is fishing yearround hauling a lot of traps and has a big investment, probably has a bigger boat probably has the biggest traps his money can buy. Anything from a really good living to parttimers to kids that go just during the summer hauling by hand a handful of traps. Brian mccarthy allowed us to halt a handful if they dont have a license . Guest they have to have a license to do so but there are recreational licenses people can get to finish tied for six traps. Cspan in the book you see a good lobstermen can make 100,000 a year . Guest that isnt unusual for some of the highlighters. I would consider that a good year. Guest in my opinion hes the best and i think he works the hardest. Cspan if you are the best what is it that you do that is not so good it makes you a success . Guest when i see him whether hes on his boat or on shore shes always working. He and his father have a fish house or shop where they work on their gear, they are there constantly. Any time of day i go by the matter the weather it is a constant job. Cspan using your dad is 71 at the time. Guest shes now 72. Cspan and your mom had cancer . Guest my mom was diagnosed with Breast Cancer just about a year ago and three days ago she had a doctors appointment and this was a good time because its the first time of year she had been declared cancer free so very good. Cspan mac why does your dad work with you as your storm in . Guest shes a retired suit and tie kind of guy and a happened quite naturally. I was looking for someone and he was very willing to go. He couldnt be happier because now he is running my boat and its worked out really well. Ive always had a great relationship with both of my parents but as a kid i liked to do the hunting and fishing and the working so its been nice to go home and reconnect with my father and work within. Cspan where were you born . Guest stamford connecticut and i lived there for three months and ive moved back with my parents were dead link ever since. Cspan where is the relationship with your family . Guest my dads family is from the island. I am fifthgeneration on the island. Cspan when did they come there on the first place and are what circumstances . Guest everyone that visits to the island it was attractive to live on the island would say the 18 hundreds that changed somewhere along the way with the advantage in the steam engines no longer selling to the fishing grounds, dont need to be as close now because we have these engines and also High School Education made it so that High School Kids have to move off the island. So what sort of depopulated between the two things between kids having to go to school, the main state regulation and gasoline and steam engines. Cspan where did you go to grade school . Guest in a really small town. Cspan there is a school on the island still . Guest its one of the remaining in the country. One of very few on the remote outposts of islands. Kindergarten through eighthgrade there eighth grade there will be six students in the school this year. And why didnt you go their . Guest my father worked at a shipping company in maine. So that was going to work and we were going off to school. Cspan did you go off to school guest it was always my dream to live off the island yearround i hated leaving the island in the fall so i had these great memories on the island. Cspan where did you go to school . Guest at a school named mount ararat. Guest what were you interested in those years . Guest i liked school. I was into sports. I was a weekend fisherman at the time. My parents were always very avid sports fisherman so i grew up in the summers trying to catch anything that is when around my home and i always like to school and enjoyed it but also. One brother and two sisters. Cspan arthur ages compared to yours . Guest brother and sister are eight years younger than i am and one older sister that is two years older than i am. Cspan where do they live . Guest we are all in maine. My brother and sister are in portland, my older sister my older sister is a housewife and my brother is a Marine Engineer but shipped out for a while and now works a landbased job and my younger sister is an executive businesswoman. Cspan and what do they think . Guest they dont want to be me that they are very proud of what ive done and my accomplishments or whatever. Im very quick to say that ive had a great number of failures but everything ive done has been hard work whether its success or failure im a real one of the physician. I cant play anything. Sometimes its a very very good and