Cheryl Clegg Photography

Name: Cheryl Clegg Photography
Address: Boston, MA, US
Telephone: +16172682266

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10/23/2026

Honored to have two of my “Endangered Lobstermen” photos chosen by Maine State Museum for display in the entry carousel.
Great to attend the preview of the grand re-opening tonight with Brian Hodgson

Thanks to all of the lobsterfishermen who have made this series possible.

10/07/2026

The Endangered Lobstermen 🦞

“I was born and raised right here in Cutler. I grew up in a construction family but was always raised around Cutler and the fishing community. Right out of high school I started fishing on a trawl boat out of Lubec, I went down there for a few years. It didn’t really work out down there and I tried a few other jobs which didn’t work out. I ended up with a job with Kirstan in 2019., it has worked out great. I have a year round job.
It’s an easy going job, a good paying job.

I started my hours years ago to get a lobster fishing license and I’ve gotten to the age now where it is hard to get it. You have to start with an apprenticeship and you have so many hours and days that you have to do. I’m at the age now where it’s kinda getting late to get a license and it costs a lot to get going in the industry. So, not sure if I’ll ever be a license holder or not, but you never know I guess.

Fishing is the only thing that I know now. The hours always work out great for me and my family. I can be home everyday with my family and I work with great guys everyday that make it easy.”

I don’t know what the future will be in it, you never know.
It’s day to day, year to year, but it’s just part of the industry I guess.

-William Ramsdell
Sternman
Cutler, Maine

10/06/2026

The Endangered Lobstermen 🦞

“I’m a second generation lobsterman. I started in the harbor fishing when I was about ten years old and then started going with Dad throughout high school, just slowly logged my hours from high school to now. Recently I ended up getting my license but I’m just not using it currently, still just working only with Dad.
I enjoy fishing a lMained that’s why I’m still doing it, but just haven’t gone out on my own yet.”

-Brandon Porter
Cutler, Maine

10/05/2026

The Endangered Lobstermen🦞
Part 4 of 4

“It’s one of those businesses that there’s so many unknowns from year to year.

What regulation might take you out or will there not be enough product to catch?

Or will the price be so low on that product that you can’t make a living?

So there’s just so many variables in fishing and it’s not just a physically demanding job is a mentally demanding job as well.

So you want your kids to follow in your footsteps but other times you’re saying get out go find something a little more stable”

-Kristan Porter
F/V Whitney & Ashley
Cutler, Maine

10/04/2026

The Endangered Lobstermen 🦞
Part 3 of 4

“My son is fishing with me now. I’m glad he’s fishing, but I am also worried about that because you don’t know what the future brings.
His first year out of high school we encouraged him to go to vocational school, which he did. He has a certificate in residential electrical, so he has a back up.

I think that if you’re gonna fish you gotta have either a backup or a side thing now because it’s getting real hard to make a full time living at fishing, especially lobstering.”

-Kristan Porter
F/V Whitney & Ashley
Cutler, Maine

10/03/2026

The Endangered Lobstermen🦞
Part 2 of 4

“I did go to college for three years, University in Southern Maine. I was going to be an industrial arts teacher, but that didn’t pan out. So, I basically wasted three years and a good down payment on a boat.

I decided to come home and go fishing. That’s what I have been doing on my own since 1990.”

-Kristan Porter
F/V Whitney & Ashley
Cutler, Maine

10/02/2026

The Endangered Lobstermen 🦞
Part 1 of 4

“I grew up in Cutler, Maine, a fishing community. Technically I’m a first-generation fisherman because my father didn’t lobster fish. My family did though:, if you dig back on both sides, I am a fifth-or sixth-generation fisherman.
My cousins taught me to fish. If I had a day off from school-or if my parents would let me take a day off from school like in seventh or eighth grade-’d go fishing with my cousin.
And I did that all the way through high school and in the summers, that’s how I made my money.”

-Kristan Porter
F/V Whitney & Ashley
Cutler,Maine

09/30/2026

The Endangered Lobstermen🦞

“I was a fifth-generation fisherman. I lobster fished from the time I was fourteen ‘til six years ago.

I took over my dad’s business, Beals Mooring and Island Service, and I expanded it. I quit fishing because the regulations got so steep. Between the cost of bait and fuel and all the regulations you had to keep up with, I decided this was best for me.

A lot of my friends and family still fish and a lot of them are struggling; everything is so expensive.

I take care of most of the moorings for the boats-pleasure boats, lobster boats-between Addison, Jonesport, Beals, and Roque Bluffs. I send a few to Cutler and Bucks Harbor.

That’s what I’m doing now. I love fishing, but it just got regulated out, basically.”

-Chris Beal
Owner of
Beal’s Mooring and Island Service

09/26/2026

Yesterday was National Lobster Day. 🦞

But for these lobstermen, every day is National Lobster Day. 🦞

Lobstering isn’t just a job. It’s a way of life, passed down through generations, shaped by the ocean, the weather, family and community.

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