Wild Lobsters — with Dan Rodgers, Bottom Line Fisheries

Dan Rodgers has been lobstering out of Corea, Maine since 1988 — a first-generation fisherman who grew up on the water and never left it. In 2017, he opened his boat to visitors, and Catch Your Dinner was born: guests watch as Dan and his daughter bring the traps full of lobster onto the boat, band lobster claws, and learn about the conservation practices lobstermen have used since the beginning — then eat what they caught.

In this episode, Dan walks us through what a day of lobstering off the coast of Maine actually looks like, how a hand-painted sign by the side of the road turned into a full-blown tour business almost overnight, and why the fishery's most important conservation tool — the v-notch — was invented by fishermen, not regulators. It's a story about  ...