Fred Dauphinee of Scituate became a lobsterman in 1972, in his 30s, because he loved the outdoors, the physical work, the lifestyle -- and of course, lobster. At his peak in the early '80s, he worked from dawn to dusk and set 880 traps, making enough to sup port his wife and three sons. "I fished full-time for 35 years," he says, wistfully. Today, Dauphinee is 67. While he still lobsters on weekends, his main job is as a driver and ware house worker in Norwell. While he remains hopeful, the Scituate native said it's getting increasingly hard to make a living lobstering. The number of lobsters caught off the Massachusetts coast fell each year from 2002 to 2005, be fore rebounding in 2006. Dauphinee suggests a handful of reasons for the general decline in lobster catches, including tighter controls by regulators and possible effects of the Boston Har bor sewage treatment outfall pipe opened 9 miles offshore in 2000. And he has another theory, one shared by many lobstermen and by some experts in the Northeast: Pesticides used to kill mosquito larvae all around the area have seeped into ocean and hurt lob sters as well. "I'm ... very worried about the use of pesticides," he said. He is not alone. Bill Adler of Marshfield, direc tor of the Massachusetts Lobster men's Association, based in Scitu ate, said such concerns have been widespread ever since a massive kill-off of lobster in Long Island Sound in 1999. That year, lobstermen off the New York and Connecticut coast began ...
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