At 101, she's still hauling lobsters with no plans to stop

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — When Virginia Oliver started trapping lobster off Maine’s rocky coast, World War II was more than a decade in the future, the electronic traffic signal was a recent invention and few women were harvesting lobsters.

Nearly a century later, at age 101, she’s still doing it. The oldest lobster fisher in the state and possibly the oldest one in the world, Oliver still faithfully tends to her traps off Rockland, Maine, with her 78-year-old son Max.

Oliver started trapping lobsters at age 8, and these days she catches them using a boat that once belonged to her late husband and bears her own name, the “Virginia.” She said she has no intention to stop, but she is concerned about the health of Maine’s lobster population, which she said is subject to heavy fishing pressure these days.

“I’ve done it all my life, so I might as well keep doing it,” Oliver said.

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-oddities-maine-61b5c7bd559a5636e840c206cb990a32

[Tomconroy]

1. Wow!

[elleng]

2. Good and WOW!

May go up there soon, and 'catch' my own!

[Treefrog]

3. Hard work outside is good for you.

Sitting on a couch, not so much.

[Rorey]

5. Absolutely!

I spent the morning cleaning out some branches and other debris at a house I'm selling. A guy younger than my youngest son came by and asked if I wanted help. I said no thank you. I've gotten great enjoyment working on that house and yard over the last 9 days. You don't get nearly as much satisfaction from a job well done when it's someone else doing the job.

[Rorey]

4. Good for her!

Her son is no spring chicken either!

[geardaddy]

6. I can just imagine how she said that quote.

With a great Mainer accent.

[iluvtennis]

7. Love, love, love it! Thanks for posting. n/t

[DFW]

8. I noticed the price surge

When she first started, lobsters fetched 28 cents a pound, and now it's 15 times that (which would make $4.20 a pound). They need a lobbying group. When I was on Cape Cod this summer, the stores were asking between $61 and $70 a pound for lobster meat. Even if only a third of the lobster is meat, that means the lobster catchers are getting between a fifth and a sixth of the price we are paying at the fish shops on Cape Cod. Someone is cleaning up somewhere, and it's neither the lobstermen/women or us tourists.

On the other hand, if that means less lobsters will be caught and less bought, maybe the stocks can replenish, although if the water keeps getting warmer, it's game over no matter what the price is.

[Backseat Driver]

9. The last lobster I ate was a shredded lobster po'boy from

a food truck - about $20. I have had other lobster dishes over my lifetime, but none so delicious as the whole lobster I ordered with all the bells and whistles of crackers, picks and side of flame-melted butter and applied bib with the blessings of parents and host in some restaurant overlooking the lake in IL or WI when I was about 12 years old--no comparison going forward from that. Hurray for Oliver at long-life and purpose!

[getagrip_already]

10. Here is a pic of her working....

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