Hoop net, the first trap employed in catching lobsters.

LB1995.72.202

[included in the "Atlantic Fisherman" exhibit] "Hoop net, first trap employed in catching lobsters." A fisherman shows off an obsolete hoop net to photojournalist Alfred Elden. These traps date to the days when you could put some bait in the middle of a net, then haul it some hours later catching the lobsters that had crawled to the bait.