Lobstermen aren't some noble group of people that should be free to roam the seas with impunity. It's an important industry and employs a large amount of hard working mainers, but you seem to be idealizing them in a way that is pretty delusional. They are generally pretty uneducated and backwards thinking as a group, they think everyone else should be bending over to accommodate their industry and any effort to regulate is going to "put them out of business", and it's pretty true that they either are pretty wealthy if they are smart with their money or they are crippled drug addicts who do a lot of harm to their community.

I generally think the state should invest in moving away from resource based industries because whether it's global warming or over fishing it's a vulnerable industry and it would be a disaster if it collapsed with no replacement. See the grand banks fisheries in newfoundland or the paper industry in maine.