The Elusive II lobster boat cuts a white swathe through the steely grey waters off Warrnambool in Victoria’s West. Fifty-five-year-old Garry Ryan powers down the boat and sidles her next to the breakwater. Onboard is deckhand Ryan Bell and their catch of just over 100 southern rock lobsters.
Read MoreWhen Dayle Pranskunas was a three-year-old girl she watched her mother head off to sea to work on a scallop boat. “I just wanted to be like her,” says Dayle. “It seemed like the most adventurous way of making a living.” When Dayle was 20 she landed a job as a deckhand on a scallop boat working out of Port Welshpool in South Gippsland. “It was brilliant.
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