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3 days agoMaine's 'lobster lady' Virginia Oliver, who worked decades in the lobster industry, dies at 105
Virginia Oliver, a Maine lobsterman who began trapping at age 8, fished lobsters for nearly a century and died at 105.
A long day means heading out to the Gulf of Mexico at 1 a.m. and returning at 6 p.m., after hauling and resetting 500 wooden traps that weigh nearly 150 pounds (70 kilos) each when filled with lobsters. The work is an orchestrated frenzy: one man hauls up the trap, another pulls out the lobsters, measures them, and stows them, while another cleans the wooden cage and stacks it, ready to go back into the sea a choreography of orange overalls.