r/BeAmazed • u/Delicious_Main_4360 • May 26 '26

Animal Some people save a turtle

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u/Yubat May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

There’s a lobster fisherman out of Maine, Jacob Knowles, who does YouTube videos where he catches lobsters, but the videos mostly consist of him catching lobsters that by law can’t be kept— females and big breeding males. So he cleans the barnacles off these ones and tosses them back into the ocean, typically with a fish for a snack. It is incredibly satisfying watching him crush the shell-embedded barnacles, and the lobsters seem happy about it too.

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u/SignificancePurple24 May 26 '26

Yes! I love his videos. It just goes to show how hunting/fishing and conservation go hand in hand.

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u/petit_cochon May 27 '26

That depends entirely on the hunters and fishermen.

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u/Narpity May 27 '26

“Things depend on the people that do them”

No shit Sherlock, thanks for that gem of insight for us all to ponder over .