Virginia Oliver has already renewed her lobster fishing license for the 2023 season. Unlike other lobstermen however, for this Mainer it's an almost century-long ritual.

Virginia Oliver started catching lobsters off the coast when she was a little girl, and has no plans of retiring.https://t.co/fAFvyiQTRb

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Virginia Oliver started catching lobsters off the coast when she was a little girl, and has no plans of retiring.https://t.co/fAFvyiQTRb

That's because Virginia is the state's oldest lobster fisherman-at 103 years old, an anniversary that she celebrated with friends, family, news reporters, and lobster-shaped earrings studded with jewels last Tuesday.

Affectionately named the "Lobster Lady," Virginia has been trapping and hauling the crustaceans since she was 8 years old.

"It's really not work to me," the Messenger reported she had said when she was 101. "It's just what I do. I like to do it. I wouldn't go if I didn't want to."

All four of her children lobster, as well as her late husband. She says she loves the freedom that working on the water offers her.

Her life, upon reaching its 102nd year, was illustrated in a children's book called The Lobster Lady-Maine's 102-year-old Legend. 

Asked candidly when she planned to retire, she replied to News Center Maine that it would have to be when she dies, and not a moment before.

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