Vinalhaven Untrapped: FREE Documentary about "The Lobster Trap"

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December 12, 2021: The Boston Globe and Portland Press Herald jointly released the first in a series of articles purporting to tell the story of the lobster fishing community of Vinalhaven.
December 12, 2022: The same people who were featured in those articles now tell you their story, in their own words.
The feature series, "The Lobster Trap", got massive media exposure & won awards for the authors. It also could not be any more dissimilar to what the people who were portrayed thought they were signing on to.
No copyright intended, no permission necessary for broadcast. Funded entirely by you, the audience.

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@smith943 Жыл бұрын

Wicked good documentary and a real view into the truth

@JudithLovdal Жыл бұрын

Amazing factual documentary - we must all stand up for the local lobster men and women of this precious community and other coastal villages. Beautifully and professionally presented. This kind of horrific deception is happening everywhere- fishermen, farmers and on and on. Let's speak power to truth and share this with everyone we know.

@douglaskampfer2028 Жыл бұрын

Lobster work is hard work, no one is hurting the whales except the pollution that New York City and Boston put into the waters.

@anarios2637 3 ай бұрын

Great piece , I’m glad it’s being truthfully expressed to show the truth of good hardworking people !

@timoakes2685 Жыл бұрын

That’s more like it. Thanks Andrew

@budbundy364 2 күн бұрын

What an incredible video to watch.... just amazing ❤❤❤ To the people in this video, you have an amazing way of life don't let anyone take it from you. Anything worth having is worth fighting for!!! That woman should be ashamed of herself for writing an article that hurts a child's feelings like that. Something should be done about this. I am so sorry this happened to you fine folks.

@batlady2343 Жыл бұрын

"She should be in prison for what she did. ..." That (PPH article) is not journalism; that's libel.

@TheREALLibertyOrDeath Жыл бұрын

These people claiming to be on your side are wolves in sheep’s clothing. You see my boat on channel 6 they did the same thing to me.

@arro104 Жыл бұрын

It's about respect

@paulgirard940 6 ай бұрын

Typical arrogance of folks from outside. "experts". Treat everyone else like sheep and take advantage of peoples good nature.

@ottertail1997 8 ай бұрын

i'm still scratching my head wondering how some reporters from the Boston Globe or the Portland press herald know more about the ocean environment and the people that live and work in the sea at Vinalhaven..They live every day and every night. They worked at environment and have for many generations. These reporters barely know how to find a way to work in the morning. Excellent documentary.

@josdedam 8 ай бұрын

I've met a new York times reporter at one time and was negative on everything happening around him, all he worried about was coming up with a story that would make him have a good by line.

@jenniferholden9397 8 ай бұрын

Just make sure that you keep the big factory boats away, they’ll strip the sea floor and trash what they don’t want.

@LynnStone44 Жыл бұрын

"He was so intelligent he won't listen to me'. THIS is the crux of what I see many Mainers have to deal with. I think if Mainers don't 'fill' Maine with their own plans, corporations will come in and fill it with their profit driven ideas. Mainers are amazing, and so independant they sometimes get nowhere. That infighting works for outsiders. Time to come together.

@jenniferholden9397 8 ай бұрын

Who ever you talk to, record it, and make sure they know it. Good luck.

@jeffreylewis4708 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for telling the truth. I was disgusted by the Glibe/Press Herald hit piece.

@sgtcrab2569 Жыл бұрын

That is hilarious! 60s - 70s? Do you not remember the "true" reporting on Vietnam. Gulf of Tonkin? Casualty figures and body counts?

@HeritageWealthPlanning 10 ай бұрын

Walter Cronkite and the Tet Offensive

@DrRemidi 8 ай бұрын

It's complicated. I knew a lobster buyer who said it was the most corrupt industry he had ever worked in. Bait prices, fuel prices, and lobster whosale price may be controlled by one buyer. 80,000lbs of lobster per year per fishing license translates to a lot of money. The idea that offshore windmills will negatively impact fishing has no evidence behind it, just as the negative inpact of lobstering on right whales has no evidence. Grant money has to be spent on something and there are only about 3,000 lobstermen in the state, truly the little guys in maritime business, but big for Maine's economy. Lobster fishing is like the cowboy of the open range. Tough, hard working, stubborn and generally poorly educated because you can make a man's wage at fifteen, why stay in school? Play your cards right you can retire a millionaire by twenty-five!

@kevinpetzer936 Ай бұрын

Not rocket science that "journalism" relies on sensationalism

@LynnStone44 Жыл бұрын

How do we get Maine people together to advocate for what Mainers DO want? Could Vinalhaven be totally off the grid somehow? Could micro-grids be installed all over Maine? What IF....

@jenniferholden9397 8 ай бұрын

Commonsens just isn’t that common. Thank god for these fishermen, the British government sold our fishermen out, we had a flourishing fishing industry, not now it’s all gone, don’t let them do the same to you. We had fishing boats all around this island, we are completely surrounded by the sea but can’t fish our own fish.

@jamesmcdonald1769 Жыл бұрын

,💖💖💖💖

@ChadDubaySr-ck4ml 2 ай бұрын

Maine tradition and it's trades, are lacking we have lost the shoe industry except for new balance, which China owns and the local wood mills?! Who is going to teach the next generation of tradition?

@robertfarrow4256 6 ай бұрын

Predominately news channels tell the truth, which almost anyone can check. Sometimes a "news" crew does shameful things. Check many different sources, not just the ones you think you agree with.

@bzbrown977 9 ай бұрын

Aaaaand that's why a lobster roll is upwards of $30. Sad.

@elfronk8956 Жыл бұрын

Guess who sold the island away..I love Franky t..captain Hollywood...his wife sold the island....no joke..my family owns old harbor..uncle sunny and family..sorry but Frank's wife sold that island........

@elfronk8956 Жыл бұрын

Love the video but Frankie ts wife has sold most the land out on vinalhaven to those people taking away there lives....i guess carma is a bitch....😢it really is sad..I guess family fishing is done out there...

@stanleyfistick9414 11 ай бұрын

You've got a Million dollar boat and you call yourself a little guy ? HMMM...

@TheMaineReset 11 ай бұрын

Looked you up on Facebook, saw that your latest public share is a petition supporting Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew has spent billions of dollars in their anti-working class efforts, with their assets far eclipsing the liquid assets of any conglomeration of fishermen in the state of Maine. Maybe you should go cast aspersions on the suits at Pew. Despite your profile pic of you holding a lobster, you are quite obviously out of touch with lobstermen since you support the extinction-via-entanglement narrative.

@HeritageWealthPlanning 10 ай бұрын

@@TheMaineReset that's why we need to start taxing these foundations and universities. I'm cool with taxing churches too. No way we should be subsidizing these foundations to promote their evil anymore. Oh, don't even get me started on the Rockefeller or Ford Foundation. It's pure evil.

@judyevancic4926 Жыл бұрын

Some of these fishermen are stubborn thinkers. They just don’t get what is happening to the earth. There is more to people’s life than eating fish. Not everyone thinks about other things then just fishing in the oceans products.

@stanhry 10 ай бұрын

Some non-fisherman think they are the experts of everything including fishing. The truth is they are the true stubborn uniformed non-thinkers ,listening to media that gets paid by big money interests through ads and payed sponsorships. More then the occupational experts, themselves.

@HeritageWealthPlanning 10 ай бұрын

you don't like fish, dont eat it. Problem solved. I like fish, thus I eat it.