I catch lobsters, but I don't eat them.
I give them away to people who enjoy eating them, makes me very popular.
My license says it is good year round, which I was using, but now they have changed the rules.
I had to have all my winter lobster traps removed by March 5, 2021 and nobody { commercial and non-commercial } is allowed to set any traps until after May 15th, 2021. { with the season to end on Nov. 1st }
It is not to protect the lobsters, but to protect the whales.
Honestly where I set my traps is in very shallow rocky waters , which means a whale would already be in trouble, most likely dead.