As a child, the author often spent his summers in Wells, Maine. While exploring the rocky shore between Moody Beach and Crescent Beach during low tide with a local friend, they discovered a lobster trap. His friend retrieved the lobster and took it home. Many years later, the author related this adventure to another friend who warned him about Fishermen's Justice.Fishermen's Justice is a short ghost story that takes place at sea after two lobster trappers from a New England fishing community take action against a poacher.