Fish like a girl: This 23 year old lobsterwoman from Maine is her own boss

Captain Sadie Samuels and her sternman Zachary Buckley suit up for a day of lobstering.

Samuels and Buckley load up with bait and fuel before heading out at 6 a.m.

Sunrise from the boat.

Samuels drives out of the harbor on the way to haul her traps.

Samuels and Buckley keep an eye out for the first trap of the day.

Samuels hauls up a lobster trap.

Buckley and Samuels bring the lobster trap aboard the boat.

Samuels and Buckley take the lobsters out of the trap.

Samuels with a whelk.

Buckley sorts the lobsters as Samuels motors to the next trap.

The daily catch.

Buckley measures a lobster to be sure it’s of legal length. Anything shorter than 3 1/4 inches must get thrown back into the ocean.

Unloading the day’s catch.