Lobster poaching

don't bother, they will just steal your plastic lobsters too,

You know, Tashmoo, you don't strike me as the gun toting type. Nail gun, maybe. But not the double-barrel, 12-guage type. Here's what I would do. Buy six or seven of those plastic lobsters that look like the real ones. And then use a Sharpie to write, "Smile! You're on Candid Camera!" on their abdomen. put one in a few of your pots. It will keep the jerks from coming back. Kind of like the people that greet you at the Gap store. They're not being nice. They're just sending a message to the shoplifters: "You're being watched."

G. 

from the internets, info on protecting one's catch...

In the past, many lobstermen would keep firearms aboard their vessels to threaten any boaters or other lobstermen who were seen hauling their pots. This practice continues in many parts of New England. The laws of Massachusetts and several other states permit lobstermen to use force to protect their pots.

hmmm........

.

Wow.  That's really a dickish thing to do to someone.  Karma's a bitch.  Ka is a wheel.

Hopefully they'll get a shellfish allergy or something.

m

we use zip-ties, at least that way there is no doubt that someone else was in them.  some trips out to check 1/2 the pots have been opened. ( we only have 1/2 a doz.)

Huh.

That's how my second book starts...

QC

cable ties definitely. treble hooks spaced on the lines work real well.

Lobster cam?

Exploding dye pack?

Or ask the USCG to point the high-powered EOIR camera mounted on Brant Point Light out toward your pots.  They may actually have footage of the culprit already.