Fish like a girl: This 23 year old lobsterwoman from Maine is her own boss
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Captain Sadie Samuels and her sternman Zachary Buckley suit up for a day of lobstering.
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Samuels and Buckley load up with bait and fuel before heading out at 6 a.m.
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Sunrise from the boat.
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Samuels drives out of the harbor on the way to haul her traps.
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Samuels and Buckley keep an eye out for the first trap of the day.
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Samuels hauls up a lobster trap.
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Buckley and Samuels bring the lobster trap aboard the boat.
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Samuels and Buckley take the lobsters out of the trap.
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Samuels with a whelk.
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Buckley sorts the lobsters as Samuels motors to the next trap.
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The daily catch.
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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.
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Unloading the day’s catch.
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