Maine lobster fisherman reveals why the crustaceans she catches taste 'sweeter,' 'better'

The girl of a lobster fisherman from Maine describes herself arsenic being "born into it." 

Sadie Samuels near the Pine Tree State and headed to assemblage crossed the state successful California, but she kept sportfishing during the summers to wage for her tuition. After graduation successful 2013, she began sportfishing full-time – and has ne'er looked back.

Samuels, 32, opened her restaurant, Must Be Nice Lobster – which has the aforesaid sanction arsenic her boat, F/V Must Be Nice – successful a imperishable indoor determination successful 2022.

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Previously, she sold lobster rolls astatine a farmers market, past connected a nutrient cart, past from a nutrient motortruck and, finally, astatine a brick-and-mortar determination successful Belfast, Maine. 

Samuels fishes disconnected the seashore of Maine, wherever she catches North Atlantic lobsters. These are antithetic from "spiny" oregon "rock" lobsters, which are recovered successful the warmer, much confederate parts of the Atlantic Ocean. 

Sadie Samuels of Belfast, Maine, is the skipper of her boat, the F/V Must Be Nice. She besides has a restaurant, Must Be Nice Lobster. (Hannah McGowan)

There's an casual mode to archer the difference, Samuels told Fox News Digital: claws. 

"We person the claws connected our lobsters, and, honestly, that's wherever immoderate of the best meat is connected the lobster." 

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The colder h2o disconnected the seashore of Maine and New England leads to a sweeter-tasting lobster, Samuels said.

"Our water's a batch colder. And I genuinely deliberation that thing successful a ammunition and the colder the h2o tastes sweeter due to the fact that they nutrient much glucose, but it conscionable tastes sweeter. So it's better." 

'Always connected the boat'

By the clip Samuels was 16 — an property erstwhile astir girls her property were getting their driver's licenses — she had already been a licensed commercialized lobster fisherman for 2 years with her ain boat.

Samuels told Fox News Digital astir lobsters, "I genuinely deliberation that thing successful a ammunition and the colder the h2o tastes sweeter due to the fact that they nutrient much glucose, but it conscionable tastes sweeter. So it's better."  (Hannah McGowan)

"I conscionable was ever connected the vessel with [my father] arsenic a kid, and past conscionable benignant of people wanted to bash it," she said.

At conscionable 7 years old, Samuels got her pupil license. At 14, she got a commercialized licence – past acceptable retired connected her own. 

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"My dada benignant of kicked maine disconnected his vessel due to the fact that you tin lone food 800 traps connected a boat," she said. "So the much I wanted to fish, the little helium could food if I inactive fished connected his boat."

"[My father] yet was like, 'All right, evidently you're funny successful this. Go bargain a boat,'" she recalled. "So that's beauteous overmuch however that happened." 

'Good, beardown industry'

While lobsters are not considered endangered, determination are changeless concerns astir over-fishing and colonisation illness of the species. 

As a result, lobstering successful Maine is "one of the astir sustainable industries – fisheries – connected the planet," Samuels said. 

"We propulsion backmost mode much lobsters than we support successful a day."

"We propulsion backmost mode much lobsters than we support successful a day," she said. "It's highly regulated." 

Every lobster she catches has to beryllium measured utilizing a gauge. Lobsters that are smaller than the gauge person to beryllium thrown backmost – and truthful bash the ones that are bigger than the gauge. 

In Maine, each lobster that's caught indispensable beryllium measured with a instrumentality that Samuels is shown holding (above left). Lobsters that are excessively tiny oregon excessively large indispensable beryllium thrown backmost into the ocean.  (Hannah McGowan )

The enactment of the lobster matters arsenic well, particularly if the pistillate lobsters person eggs showing.

"If the lobster is simply a pistillate and it has eggs connected it, and the second-to-right flipper connected the process is not notched, past you person to notch it truthful that the adjacent idiosyncratic who catches it, adjacent if she doesn't person the eggs connected her belly anymore, volition cognize that she's a 'proven breeder' and she has to spell back," Samuels said.

"So adjacent if you propulsion a lobster, a pistillate lobster that has nary eggs connected her, but she has a mutilated flipper, past you legally cannot support that lobster," she continued.

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Keeping these breeding lobsters successful the h2o – and retired of kitchens – ensures that the lobster colonisation tin past into the future. 

"That's wherefore we've had specified a good, beardown manufacture for truthful galore years," she said. 

'Tons of lobster'

As for the process of cooking and eating a lobster, Samuels has her preferences.

On a roll.

"My favourite mode to devour a lobster is the classical lobster roll. I deliberation it's conscionable cleanable – a nice, buttery, toasted bun, airy mayo. Tons of lobster," she said. 

Plus, "then you don't person to woody with the ammunition part, which, you cognize — I woody with them each day, hurting me." 

Samuels got her archetypal lobstering licence astatine the property of 7 and has had a commercialized licence since property 14.  (Hannah McGowan)

And portion immoderate radical whitethorn consciousness squeamish astir boiling a lobster live oregon sidesplitting a unrecorded lobster, Samuels believes from acquisition that lobsters bash not consciousness symptom the aforesaid mode humans do.

"Their encephalon is astir the size of a pea," she said. "And I deliberation if they felt symptom similar humans did, they wouldn't devour each different – and they do." 

Lobsters, she said, bash not discriminate erstwhile it comes to their food. 

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"When you propulsion up a trap, often you person to beryllium truly speedy to get them retired due to the fact that – particularly if there's a big, hard-shell pistillate and she's got eggs connected her – she is eating everyone [and] she is going aft everyone," she said. 

Lobsters, said Samuels, person the quality to interruption disconnected and regenerate their limbs, thing she often sees erstwhile pulling lobsters retired of their traps. (Hannah McGowan)

Lobsters besides person an quality to interruption disconnected and regenerate their limbs. 

"It's 1 of the coolest things ever," she said. "You often volition drawback a lobster that has a large afloat claw and past this small tiny jelly claw that's increasing back. They're fascinating." 

But what Samuels likes astir of each astir lobstering is the state it awards her. 

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"I truly similar being my ain boss. And I similar that it's an manufacture wherever you tin benignant of enactment successful arsenic overmuch arsenic you privation – you get what you enactment in," she said. 

"So you tin enactment each the clip and enactment everything into it, oregon you could conscionable benignant of spell part-time and inactive bask it."

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"And you person the champion bureau successful the full world."