Your Lobsterman

Inside each box of Lobster Designs jewelry you will find an information card. If your piece features mussel or oyster shell, the card
will identify where the shell used in your particular piece of jewelry was found.

If your piece features LOBSTER SHELL, here is where you will find specific information about the lobsterman who caught the actual lobster used in your creation. Enjoy reading about "your" lobsterman. Continue on to All Things Lobster for fun information about lobsters, lobstering, recipes and more.
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J. Seiders
Vessel: Comin’ or Goin’
(‘cause you never know whether he is coming or going!)

J. Seiders began fishing aboard his father’s boat at the age of three. When not underfoot “helping” to bring the traps aboard, he could be found in the foreward cabin lulled to sleep by the vibrations and rumblings of the engine. He fished with his grandfather from the time he was seven until he bought his first outboard at twelve. He had seventy five traps at the beginning of his solo career and now fishes six-hundred, the maximum allowed in his fishing “zone”. 

J. Seiders fishes from May through December, setting traps throughout John’s Bay, Christmas Cove and out to the Pumpkin Ledges, seven miles from the South Bristol Harbor.

E. Seiders
Vessel: Marion

E. Seiders is just 9 years old though he, like his father, began lobstering when he was three years old. (In Maine, youth can apply for a student license at the age of eight.) E. Seiders build his 12' wooden skiff with the help of his father and was thrilled to finally fish under his own license last year. When not hauling his own 10 traps, E. Seiders can be found on his grandfather's boat helping band lobsters and otherwise keeping busy.
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J. DeWitt
Vessel: Barbara Anne
 
 
J. DeWitt began summering on Isle au Haut as a baby. He moved to the island permanently when he got out of high school in the early 1970's and began his professional lobstering career in the 80's.  Though he humbly admits that he has never been one of the bigger fishermen on Isle au Haut, he has always enjoyed working on the water for a living.  "As you may know, it is not all romantic,
but there is nothing like watching the sun rise over the water while you start hauling on a calm summer morning!"

He fishes the shore from Old Cove on the northeastern end of Isle au Haut to Western Ear on the southwestern end, around Kimball's, Nathan's, and Burnt Islands, and the ledges off the western side of the island out to the Brandy ledges.