(9 May 2025)
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Stonington, Maine – 2 May 2025
1. Wide of seagulls with boats in background
2. Boat pulling into dock
3. Fisherman Virginia Olsen climbing into boat
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“We are sanding and preparing for spring, so every year the boat gets a facelift.”
5. Olsen getting boat ready for fishing season
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“I am a fifth generation fisherman in my family. My grandfather is in the Fisherman’s Hall of Fame in Stonington.”
7. UPSOUND (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“All of our bait goes in these totes. And we stack them up and work out of them.”
8. Olsen getting boat ready for fishing season
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“I think the fishermen are supportive of some of the changes that President Trump has put in but I think as a whole they’re very nervous about the fishery and what that has, you know, where that future is going to go.”
10. Fishermen weighing lobster in crates
11. Crates of lobsters traveling up conveyor belt
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“The Gulf of Maine is one of the most robust fisheries in the world and we want to make sure that we are not exchanging our right to feed the world for an energy source.”
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13. STILL photo of lobster rearing its claws
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14. STILL photo of lobster walks on the ocean floor near a lobster trap
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Stonington, Maine – 2 May 2025
15. Fishing boat leaving dock
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“We are highly regulated. I think we are probably the most regulated for our harvest. We have a very select size that we’re allowed to keep.”
17. Fishing boats lined up on shore
18. UPSOUND (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“We can use this to cut a V out of the tail of a lobster. And anything that doesn’t fall within that gauge, we have to throw overboard.”
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“When we have uncertainty in regulation, families, they try to push their children into other fields, go to college, do something else, don’t live in the uncertainty within the fishery. And that makes it very tough for a town like ours, which is primarily fishermen.”
20. Exterior of Harbor View Store in Stonington
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“What we’re very happy with is we feel like the fishery is actually getting highlighted, it’s getting a spotlight.”
22. Olsen standing next to boat
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“That gives us an opportunity to go to the table, have the conversation to say, this is what we need as a fishery and this is we can live without.”
24. Sign for Stonington Lobster Rolls
25. Fishing boats in foreground with homes in background
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Virginia Olsen, fisherman:
“Lobster is important to Maine, our fishermen are important to Maine, and we want to make sure that heritage continues.”
27. Fishing boat leaving harbor
STORYLINE:
Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine’s chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state’s lifeblood industry mount.
Trade imbalances with Canada, tight regulations on fisheries and offshore wind farms towering like skyscrapers on open water pose three of those threats, said Olsen, part of the fifth generation in her family to make a living in the lobster trade.
“As long as they don’t put any more onto us,” McHenan said. “We’ll see — time will tell.”
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