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Josh Audet loads barrels of bait onto his boat at Perkins Cove.
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Audet paddles out to his lobster boat Karamel in Perkins Cove in Ogunquit before dawn. Audet works long days, often working until 9 p.m. at the Perkins Cove Lobster Pound, his business that offers delivery of cooked lobster.
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Audet, left, and Kyle Draper prepare to leave Perkins Cove in Ogunquit for a day of lobstering.
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Audet and sternman Kyle Draper head out from Perkins Cover aboard Audet's boat Caramel for a day of lobstering.
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Audet motors back into Perkins Cove after a day of lobstering aboard Karamel.
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Draper and Audet return to Perkins Cove with their catch.
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Sternman Kyle Draper uses a lift to raise bait barrels, guided by Audet, off the deck of the Karamel.
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Along with sternman Kyle Draper, left, Audet paddles his skiff back to the dock after mooring his lobster boat in Perkins Cove.
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Draper, left, and Audet carry a bin of lobsters into the Perkins Cove Lobster Pound.
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Audet, left, and Draper weigh lobsters that they just brought into the Perkins Cove Lobster Pound from Audet's lobster boat. Audet says that during the summer months, he usually sells 100 percent of his lobster catch at the lobster pound.
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Audet, left, talks with his grandfather Wayne Perkins inside the Perkins Cove Lobster Pound. Audet learned lobstering from Perkins and started working on his boat when he was in seventh grade.
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Audet works at filling orders at the lobster pound. Audet started the business in a former garage at his grandparents' house in 2012 as a way to counter falling lobster prices.
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Karen Audet splits a lobster tail while preparing an order.
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The Perkins Cove Lobster Pound operates out of a small former garage attached to the Ogunquit house owned by Audet's grandfather Wayne Perkins. Working in the lobster pound are Cam Hall, Ryan Hevey and Karen Audet, Josh Audet's mother.
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Hall puts a bag of cooked lobsters into a cooler mounted on the back of a scooter. The lobster pound uses coolers to help keep the cooked lobsters warm during delivery.
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Hall pulls away from the Perkins Cove Lobster Pound on a scooter to make a delivery of cooked lobster. The lobster pound uses scooters for delivery because they're easier to negotiate through Ogunquit's crush of summer traffic.
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Audet drives a scooter along Shore Road in Ogunquit, making a lobster delivery.