Vinalhaven Untrapped: FREE Documentary about "The Lobster Trap"

[@smith943]

Wicked good documentary and a real view into the truth

[@JudithLovdal]

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]

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

[@timoakes2685]

That’s more like it. Thanks Andrew

[@anarios2637]

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

[@timh4737]

I bet the noise from those windmills have a bigger effect on ocean life than any fisherman could possibly produce.

[@ottertail1997]

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]

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.

[@TheREALLibertyOrDeath]

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]

It's about respect

[@paulgirard940]

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

[@batlady2343]

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

[@jenniferholden9397]

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

[@budbundy364]

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.

[@JCLewis27]

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

[@jenniferholden9397]

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

[@kevinpetzer936]

Not rocket science that "journalism" relies on sensationalism

[@DrRemidi]

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!

[@LynnStone44]

"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.

[@sgtcrab2569]

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

[@HeritageWealthPlanning]

Walter Cronkite and the Tet Offensive

[@douglaskampfer2028]

I have empathy for the lobsterman, as a trapper I know how City people who are ignorant to our way of is, they create a bad image of things they don't understand.

[@jenniferholden9397]

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.

[@LynnStone44]

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....

[@robertfarrow4256]

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.

[@jamesmcdonald1769]

,💖💖💖💖

[@bzbrown977]

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

[@mustang3931962]

Great example of how the Federal Government has nothing but contempt for the people.

[@ChadDubaySr-ck4ml]

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?

[@elfronk8956]

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........

[@stanleyfistick9414]

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

[@TheMaineReset]

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]

@@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.

[@elfronk8956]

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...

[@judyevancic4926]

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]

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]

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