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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas and agencies

Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105

A woman with a lobster in hand.
Virginia Oliver working as a sternman, measuring and banding lobsters on the boat of her son, Max Oliver on 31 August 2021, off Rockland, Maine. Photograph: Robert F Bukaty/AP

Maine’s governor has hailed the life of a woman who spent nearly 100 years fishing for lobsters as “amazing” and expressed hopes that her memory inspires “the next century of hardworking” fishers in the state.

The subject of Governor Janet Mills’ tribute, Virginia “Ginny” Oliver, died on 21 January at age 105, according to an obituary published on Monday by her family.

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