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Lobsterman preparing traps and floats before leaving port. The northern lobster fishery - conducted principally in New England coastal waters - usuallyproduces more revenue for lobstermen than any other single species of NorthAtlantic fish or shellfish. (Image credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 182 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume)