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Meet the ‘rope broker’ who cleans up the Cape’s seafloor and supplies artists with the salvaged goods
Laura Ludwig will go to most any length to find new uses for rope, nets, buoys, traps, and other equipment hauled from the depths
By Ann Parson Globe correspondent,Updated April 29, 2021, 1:12 p.m.
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Miss Lilly returns with some salvaged goods.Kay Matschullat
When Miss Lilly tied up to MacMillan Pier in Provincetown one April afternoon, a bystander might have been curious. Why had the lobster boat been out on Cape Cod Bay, when the bay was officially closed to lobster fishing through mid-May? The spring closure is meant to help critically endangered North Atlantic right whales safely passage north by reducing the risk of their entanglement in lobstering lines. ....

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