Other questions from same week:
>There are 6 feet in 1 fathom. If Captain Bruce places his traps at 30 feet below the surface, how many fathoms is that?

>Captain Bruce sells lobster for $2.85 per pound. A box of lobster weighs 90 pounds. How much money does Captain Bruce get for 1 box of lobter?

Other questions from same week:
>Captain Bruce catches 2,000 pounds of fish and ships them to the Portland Fish Exchange. The Fish Exchange pays him $.50 per pound for the fish. How much money did the Fish Exchange give Captain Bruce?

If Captain Bruce is only allowed by the government to finfish for 14-24 hour/day each year, how many hours is he allowed to finfish each year?

If he fishes for 10 hours or less, he only has to count how many hours he fishes. If he fishes for more than 10 hours he has to count it as a 24 hour day. What would be the best schedule for Captain Bruce to use in order to finfish the most number of days?

Captain Bruce traps between 400 and 500 pounds of lobster each day. There are about 75 lobsters in 90 pounds of lobster. How many lobsters would Captain Bruce trap to make 450 pounds of lobster?

Captain Bruce is only allowed to groundfish for 21 days per year. How many hours of fishing would that be?

During the months of June, July, and August, Captain Bruce is not allowed to go lobstering on Sundays. How many days was he allowed to go lobstering in 2002?

If Captain Bruce hauls 200 traps in one day and each trap had 3 legal sized lobster in it, how many lobster did he bring into the dock?

If 75 lobsters equals 90 pounds of lobster, how many pounds of lobster did Captain Bruce have that day?