Lobster Report, and why I quit commercial fishing

Spoke to an old friend, and by old I mean older than me, who still traps for lobster out of Miami.  He has pulled traps four times since the season opened and done pretty good, catching as much as 500# on his best day, but the price is $3/lb less than it was last year.  That is just unexplainable considering the cost of everything is up.  Which brings me to the reason why I decided to quit commercial fishing years ago: you don't make any money!  Here's the truth.  When the fishing is good, and you are making huge catches, the price goes down so you don't make any money.  Then when the price is up, you can't find fish to save your  life, so you don't make any money.  Then, for the two weeks out of the year when there's a lot of fish and the price is up, your boat breaks down, so you don't make any money.  Bottom line, you don't make any money!