David Brancaccio

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Today, a check-in on what we used to call...

A lobster fisherman, when I grew up in Maine, now that I live on the other coast, I have to say lobster professional.

In 2024, Maine's commercial fisheries did about $700 million in business, with lobsters accounting for the largest share of that total.

Sonny Beal is a lobsterman and board member of the Maine Lobstermen's Association.

He's on an island wicked down east.

Mr. Beal, welcome.

I guess it's like actors who never say the name of the Scottish Shakespeare play because bad things will then happen.

What is it that lobster folks stay away from the precise number of how their catch was?

Yeah, and as it refers to your business, what's the vibe?

Now, when you're out in the ocean doing your work, it is not a free-for-all.

Some of it is strict custom.

You don't mess with anybody else's traps.

But some of it is formal government regulation.

And I know that is something that people in your business have to plan around and compensate for and sometimes has costs.

You've been doing this since you were a kid.

I think you have two children, a teenager and maybe college age?

So what do they think about getting into this business?

Sonny Beal is a lobstering professional from Maine.