Whether you know it or not, lobster fishing is one of the easiest and most affordable ways to put something to eat on your table as well as save some extra cash in your pocket. Lobster season falls on the most stressful and trying part of the year as well. Not only is lobster gifting a great way to extend the holiday glee but also a great way to receive food sur la table without feeling broke.
“Lobster is food fit for a King” but it wasn’t always like that. Did you know that during our early history, lobster was thought of as Sat
an’s food and most always fed to the slave workers? It was because of an accident that was made when a king was given one of nature’s abominations that lead to the popularity of lobster.
Of course the irony is that what use to be food for slaves became the food of the elite. That is entertainment! Today the demand for lobster is a 1.8 billion dollar industry. Commercially fished lobsters bought at the store range anywhere from $5.00 an ounce to $60.00 or more at a nice seafood market.
No doubt that most of us don’t delight in lobster because we can’t afford it. However, the truth is that if you know how to catch a lobster and what you need to do so, it is literally the most realistic and most economically sound way to bring food to the table and to help supplement your income during the holidays.
Lobster season opens in the late fall, late October that is, and ends the first Wednesday after the 15th of March. When we go out, we do our best to get as many was we are allowed. Limits may vary depending on your location but where I live the limit is five traps and 7 lobsters per person with a license per day. 
Lobsters stay good frozen for up to a year, so when we have a good night, we give some to our friends and family, have a couple for ourselves and save what is left. So when summer is upon us, we get to cook our lobsters while our friends are munching on hot dogs!
Last year when some my friends and I were down at the beach, my colleague and I totally busted out with our lobsters! If only you can have seen their expressions. No, what was better was ours when we said, “yeah right”, and laughed accordingly. Don’t get me wrong, we always share but sometimes we do like it when they ask first. LOL! After all, we are the ones who did all the work.
It is without a doubt that during these troubling times with our economy; you do not have to cut your losses and settle for Rice a Roni or Top Ramen. Nonetheless, you do have to get a license, some gear (well not really), put in some hard work and get maybe a pot to cook it in.
