DCHP-3

lobster spearing

Maritimes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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Quotations

1862
When I speak of lobster spearing, do not imagine . . . that a sharp-pointed steel weapon is the instrument of capture . . . [but] a long-forked pole, which, when pressed hard over the back of the fish, holds him in its embrace till you can draw him from the water.