At 101, Virginia Oliver says she has no plans to retire from catching lobsters

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The oldest lobster catcher in the US state of Maine says there is no place she would rather be than working on the water.

When Virginia Oliver started trapping lobster off Maine's rocky coast, World War II was more than a decade in the future, the electronic traffic signal was a recent invention, and few women were harvesting lobsters.She now works with her 78-year-old son in the same watersThe oldest lobster catcher in the US state of Maine and possibly the oldest one in the world, Ms Oliver still faithfully tends to her traps off Rockland, with her 78-year-old son Max.

She said she had no intention to stop but she is concerned about the health of Maine's lobster population, which she said was subject to heavy fishing pressure these days.Ms Oliver working with her son Max Oliver at dawn.

 

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Me either Virginia.

Wow, inspiring.

Bless.

Are they from the White Anglo or White Hispanic or White European community of Americans? They don't look like American Natives, for sure!

She needs to get a life

I am a lobster and its not funny!

And she is not vaxxed.

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