Groton, Conn. (WTNH) – Biologists are recommending a five-year ban on lobster fishing in Southern New England. While this would be a inconvenience to lobster lovers, it would be devastating to the Connecticut men and women who make their living pulling them from the water.
The Sawyer family has been lobstering since 1906. With each new proposed regulation they say they're seeing rougher seas. News 8 first went out with Dick Sawyer seven years ago, when shell rot and the lobster die off threatened to sink his livelihood. Today it hasn't gotten any better.
"This time of year you should be coming up with several hundred pounds, I think we got 60 today. You just go out and you shake your head," Sawyer said.
Sawyer says pollution is to blame.
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