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Red Lobster presents, Seafood with Standards, Gear Marking

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My name is Curt Brown, I'm a Lobsterman and a marine biologist at Ready Seafood up here in Maine

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and we're proud to supply Red Lobster with nothing but sustainable lobster.

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Lobstering here is Maine is about so much more than just catching lobsters.

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It's about protecting all the marine life we have around us, and we do that in a number of different ways  

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starting with our marker buoys.

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Everybody has their own colours. My buoy colours are brown and green, and I decided on those colours when I was a kid

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because those were the two paint colours in my parents garage.

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Below the buoy we have what's called a 'weak link', this weak link right here is designed to breakaway

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should any marine life get tangled in our end-lines. 

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Beyond that we have a purple marker rope, and another another purple gear marking right at the trap. 

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This purple rope here signifies that this line is from Maine, should the trap ever get lost.

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The only way you can legally harvest the lobster in Maine is with traps, so let's haul this one up I'll show you

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the rest of what we do to protect marine life here in Maine.

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Every single trap in Maine is required to to have a trap tag.

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This ensures that nobody fishes over the legal limit, so that there's never too much gear in the water.

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On the trap itself we have what's called an escape vent, this vent right here is essentially

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a hole in the trap that allows small lobsters and any other marine life that gets into the trap to get back out.

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The state of Maine is also working on ropeless gear technology so that someday we might be able to fish these traps with no rope at all.

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There has not been a documented Right Whale entanglement with Maine Lobster gear in over 15 years

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and that is the result of all that you see right here.

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Thank you Red Lobster, that's something that we're very, very proud of.

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Honest to Good Seafood

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To learn more, visit Redlobster.com/SeafoodWithStandards