Stories: Egor Korneev. Whales or Lobstermen: Lobster Fishing in Maine.

We are back to talking with guest authors next week, but this week we are reading Egor’s story and talk about how it happened.

From the show:

…So we went to a bar one night to have a little dinner, and we were sitting down next to this guy, and we started chatting with him a little bit and discovered he was a lobsterman, Joe the Lobsterman.

…putting words on paper recalled the memories in my head and also launched this entire train of thought and thinking about the conservation struggle and the plight of right whales and the fear the lobstermen have for their livelihood. It's a difficult topic.

…And to be clear, whales are victims. They are losing ground and they are going extinct. But it is hard to point a single villain. It would be very easy if there was a big corporation that basically is a conglomerate controlling fishing. But the reality in New England is different by law. Each one of those fishermen has to be a small business that own and operate their own boat. So they're families. They're families that are going out every morning trying to catch what people buy and eat and just to make a living.