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These to fish houses are located on Lowell's Cove on Orr's Island in Harpswell, Maine.

Below is a piece about lobster fishers from a website 'Maine Lobster Fishing 101'

The area around Penobscot Bay, where we call home is host to the richest lobster bottom on the entire east coast. Gettin’ the bugs off the bottom is more work than most folks know or can imagine. I’m gonna try to paint you a picture.

Those who work the water come in all sizes and ages. There’s the kids with a recreational license (5 traps) or a student license (10, 50 or 150 traps depending on the age of the student) guided by a lobster fishing parent or grandparent (or both) to the seasoned octagenarian with an 800 trap license and sea water in his veins who can’t imagine putting himself ashore for retirement-evah. Going out with his boots on would be far preferable!

For these lobster fishermen, (the term fisherman applies to women as well as men, I’ve never heard any self respectin’ woman who fishes for lobster call herself a fisher woman!) the sea is their home. They are accutely attuned to Mother Nature and her often times, bitchy moods. They can read the sky and the tide. They know the depth and temperature of the water. They know the ocean bottom, the location of every boulder, ledge and crag (where lobsters like to tuck into) like you know the roads in your neighborhood. They set their traps as near these underwater landmarks as possible to entice lobsters into the traps with the alluring scent of fresh herring.