January 4, 2018 — MARSHFIELD, Mass. — With inches of ice covering the harbor and no end of severe winter weather in site, local lobstermen are struggling to keep their boats in the water during the last month of the legal lobstering season. Tuesday and Wednesday saw captains breaking up ice surrounding their boats and trying to move their vessels to safer locations before a storm pummels the region today.
Tuesday and Wednesday saw captains breaking up ice surrounding their boats and trying to move their vessels to safer locations before a storm pummels the region today.
“There are so many dependencies here in this business,” president of the South Shore Lobster Fishermen’s Association John Haviland said. “When everything goes smoothly it’s wonderful, but when everything doesn’t – there is nothing I can do. I have no control over winds blowing 60 mph, and I have no control over 3 inches of ice in my harbor.”
A week of single-digit temperatures has left Scituate and Plymouth harbors coated in a thick layer of ice, and most commercial fishermen have moved their boats to Green Harbor, where freezing hasn’t been as significant.
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