This may be a bit off-topic, but the commercial operation and maintenance of the lobster impoundment requires some intermittent physical labor. This afternoon a dock worker shoveled hundreds of pounds of frozen herring into both sides of the pen areas. Since there is little natural food available inside the impoundment, the lobsters must be fed. Harvesting of lobsters requires fully draining the pens as workers wade on the muddy bottom to retrieve and load lobsters into crates. Periodically, a separate person fires a shotgun or canon device loaded with blank cartridges to minimize predation by hungry gulls. When the bubbler devices are running, gull numbers generally rise a bit. At 3:30 pm today, a 1st-cycle Iceland gull entered the pens.
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