Posted: 8/27/2012 3:51:44 PM EDT
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I've heard that a regular person can go to the pier or dock and buy lobster from the fishermen for low prices; $2 or $3 a lobster.
Any truth to that? Any better places to find them? Thanks |
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Not NY. RI, CT, MASS maybe...and yes I do it once in a while. That's why I asked here. 
I was thinking a road trip East and pick up a cooler's worth of them. Maine, Mass.... No way in hell I'd go to NYC. Bakers dozen of chicks for $44 at the dock here. |
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I was there over the 4th week and paid $3.79/lb for shedders. For that price, I don't care that they are shedders (soft shelled lobsters who have just molted), By now, however, most of the lobsters will have hardened off and refilled their shells nicely. Expect to pay about $4.00 a pound retail, maybe a bit less maybe.
This was up in the Brunswick area, btw. If you go to the very southern part of Maine, I suspect you'll find a lot of prices higher as they take advantage of the shoppers there. I would try someplace north of Old Orchard Beach and south of Portland. There is some not-well-traveled areas there that local lobstermen may be willing to sell at non-tourist prices. I can tell you that the lobster haul this year is eppic. Rome |
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Still $3+? Wow. That's really a testiment to the diligence the lobstermen have applied to the rules of lobstering. This year's harvest has to be a record. I was in Casco Bay over the 4th and I've never seen so many trap buoys. It was like the bay had begun to grow them as a crop. The ferry's have a hard time not running them over, too.
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As crazy as it sounds search the Maine Craigslist for "Lobsters" for example
http://maine.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=lobsters&srchType=A&minAsk=&maxAsk= |
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As crazy as it sounds search the Maine Craigslist for "Lobsters" for example http://maine.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=lobsters&srchType=A&minAsk=&maxAsk= Thanks for the lead. I would have never thought of looking on craigslist. |
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I get those nasty things for free. Too bad i can't stand them, lol. I always end up giving them to someone else.
You can probably get em shipped to your door live for less than driving here to get em, but if your looking to pick up a few off the dock you can usually find someone who will sell them to you right off the boat. Just be polite and don't get in anyones way while they're working. Lobstermen can be odd, to say the least. |
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I get those nasty things for free. Too bad i can't stand them, lol. I always end up giving them to someone else. You can probably get em shipped to your door live for less than driving here to get em, but if your looking to pick up a few off the dock you can usually find someone who will sell them to you right off the boat. Just be polite and don't get in anyones way while they're working. Lobstermen can be odd, to say the least. That's the truth! I knew an old lobsterman when I lived up there who'd lost both of his legs in an accident on the boat a number of years before. Dude would go to the local bar, get shit-faced drunk, and start be enough of an asshole to piss off the Pope. When someone would get tired of his shit, he'd challenge them to a fight. He'd offer to go outside and climb into the backseat of a car with anybody, so that they'd pretty much lose the use of their legs and make it something of a fair fight. Except, as both a lobsterman and having to use prosthetics and crutches for many years, he had some serious upper body strength. I watched him beat the shit out of folks who wouldn't have ever lost a fight on their feet. |