美国缅因州年龄最大龙虾捕捞者，101岁仍无退休计划

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Virginia Oliver has been trapping lobsters(龙虾) in the northeastern American state of Maine for more than 90 years. And even at 101 years old, she says she has no plans to stop. Oliver recently said she started catching lobsters at age eight. At that time, the electronic traffic signal was a recent invention and few women were harvesting lobsters. Oliver still goes out to set traps off Rockland, Maine, with her 78-year-old son Max. She uses a boat that once belonged to her late husband. The boat, called “Virginia”, was named after her.

Oliver is now the oldest lobster fisher in the state and possibly in the world. “I’ve done it all my life, so I might as well keep doing it,” she said. Oliver said she worries about the health of Maine’s lobster population. She said the lobsters have been facing heavy fishing pressure in recent years. The lobster industry has changed over Oliver’s many years on the water. For example, the sea creatures have grown from a working class food to a tasty delicacy(美味佳肴).

When she first started trapping, lobsters sold for 28 cents a pound. Now, they bring in 15 times that. Wire traps have replaced her beloved wooden ones, which these days are mainly used as decorations in seafood restaurants. Other parts of the business have remained much the same over the years. She still loads up pogeys—a term used in the industry for menhaden(油鲱) fish— to put inside the traps to lure lobsters in. And, she still gets up before the sun rises to get an early start on the boat.

In some ways, she was destined(注定的) for this life. Her father was a lobster dealer who started around the 1900s. She joined her father on trips and that is when Oliver’s love of the business began. After all these years, Oliver still gets excited about a lobster dinner of her own and said she usually prepares one for herself about once a week. When asked whether she sometimes considers ending her work, Oliver said she just does not see any good reasons to do so. “I like doing it, I like being along the water,” she said. “And so I’m going to keep on doing it just as long as I can.”

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