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Adopt-a-Boat: Photo Gallery: F/V Striker. Capt. Mattie Thomson

F/V Striker | Capt. Mattie Thomson | Baits | Lobsters and procedures | By Catch | Monhegan Island

F/V Striker
F/V Striker	Bell and Striker's lucky horseshoe; A"Striker" is a Blacksmith's assistant and also the harpoon thrower on a tuna fishing boat.	Keypad of Thistle box Data Logger mounted on house, to right: scrub brush in holder for clean-up at day's end.
Life ring labeled with "Striker".	. Stern of "Striker" on port side highlighting rail used to secure lobster traps and other items carried on the boat in rough seas; foreground: blue "hot tank" used to clean gear.	Stern of boat and Mattie's orange and white buoy in water astern.
Block and pot hauler used to haul the lobster traps.	Line from a lobster trap running over the block and into the pot hauler.	The hauled warp coils in a pile below the hauler.
Buoy and rope inside the "hot tank" full of hot water that kills algae growing on gear.	Depth sounder which provides information on water depth, bottom type, and presence (or lack) of fish.	Chartplotter displaying image of Monhegan & Manana, surrounding color-coded depth contours, and the location of the boat and traps.

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Capt. Mattie Thomson
Mattie looking at GPS, in sou'wester and oilskins at helm hauling trap.	Mattie looking at chartplotter, in sou'wester and oilskins at helm hauling trap.	View from astern of Mattie in oilskins at helm with warp in hauler.
Smiling Mattie in sou'wester and oilskins at helm hauling trap.	Mattie in sou'wester and oilskins at hauler placing black toggle on floor.	Mattie in oilskins admiring the creative paint job on one of his buoys; sternman Matt VanNostran painted it with an extra band of orange and white because the buoy was so long!).
Capt. Mattie Thomson at the helm, trap on gunnel behind.

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Baits
Close up of a whole Atlantic Herring (Culpea harengus) and herring-filled baitbags threaded onto bait irons (bait needles) two at a time.	A Whole Atlantic Herring (Culpea harengus).	A whole Atlantic Herring (Culpea harengus) laying on top of a filled baitbag
Fish tray full of empty baitbags.	Greg Caban baiting trap with baitbags on bait iron(or bait needle).	Matt VanNostran threading bait iron (or bait needle) to bait trap; background: gulls flying overhead in search of bait, foreground: cullbox.

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Lobsters and procedures
Bander with rubber band that gets place around a lobster claw.	Close-up of black-colored eggs on the underside of female lobster's tail.	Black-colored eggs on the underside of female lobster's tail.
Mattie measuring a lobster with a measure	Notch being cut in the tail of a female lobster to mark it as an illegal lobster (it has eggs so it can not be harvested); notch is put in the second uropod (a flipper-like appendage) from the right.	Sternman Matt VanNostran throwing a lobster into the "lobster car", a large floating pen used to store lobsters until they are sold.
Sternman Matt VanNostran keeping busy organizing lobster bands; bait and bait irons (bait needles) to the left.	Mattie removing lobsters from a tank inset in the rail of the boat; the lobsters will be tossed into the "lobster car" to the right for storage until they are sold.	Lobsters in "cull box" where the lobsters are measured and, if legal, they are banded
Mattie pulling trap up over gunnel onto Striker; dark mass in right side of trap are lobsters.	Lobster measure with buoy spliced to it (for when it falls overboard) in holder, background: lobsters in cull box.	Sternman Matt VanNostran backhanding a short lobster over the side, background: Mattie and Greg Caban barely visible, foreground: Filled baitbags and bait irons (or bait needle) in fish tray.
Matt VanNostran inspecting size of lobster from trap on gunnel, background: Manana (left) and Monhegan (right), foreground: cull box.	Matt VanNostran removing lobsters from a tank inset in the rail of the boat so they can be moved to the "lobster car" for storage.

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By catch
Lump fish, Cyclopterus lumpus, in gloved hands

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Monhegan Island
View of water, sky, and the islands Manana (left) and Monhegan (right) in distance.	View from "Striker" of Fish Beach where the skiff is landed.