Lobster Fishing in New England 1937 Chevrolet Leader News Newsreel Vol. 3 No. 1 (Patreon)

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'...LOBSTER LABORATORY: INTIMATE LIFE OF LOBSTER...

Title Card: "One Lobster?...Yes Sir!...At Once, Sir!...Winter Winds Sweep New England Coast, But Lobster Fisherman Still Fill the Day's Orders" superimposed over photograph of fishing boats beside pier.

MS fishing pier (lobster dock). Man aboard small boat (boat draped with canopy); man reaching out with stick and snagging small buoy. CU hand raising wooden crate (lobster trap) from water; pulling it onto boat; VS fisherman pulling lobster crate onto boat; opening crate; removing 2 lobsters. CU hands placing pegs in lobster's claws. Fisherman removing lobsters from trap; removing object from crate; tossing it overboard. MS fisherman tossing traps and buoys overboard. Small boat (draped with canopy) pulling up to dock (fishermen, wearing traditional rubber raincoats and hats; several crates in rear of boat); fisherman jumping onto dock; steadying boat. Workers loading crates onto back of truck. Truck (loaded with crates) approaching from distance; passing; receding into barren, winter landscape (tracking shot). Truck pulling up to "Boston Lobster Company" warehouse; backing up to loading area. CU truck's grill (truck backing up). ECU hands holding and examining lobster (in crate). ECU lumbering lobster.'

Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_fishing

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Lobsters are widely fished around the world for their meat. They are often hard to catch in large numbers, but their large size can make them a profitable catch. Although the majority of the targeted species are tropical, the majority of the global catch is in temperate waters...

The large Homarus lobsters are caught almost exclusively with lobster pots (also called "lobster traps"). These are large rigid objects which the lobster enters voluntarily, often to reach bait, and which it then cannot escape. Traps are also used in some spiny lobster fisheries, such as the fishery for the California spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus, in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Lobster traps can either be wire or wooden, today fishermen are straying from the wooden traps as they can be heavier than the wire. Traditionally, a lobster trap has two compartments. The outside, or “kitchen”, has nylon netting leading inside the trap to the “parlour” where the lobsters are caught...