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The sea in his blood – He doesn’t plan to retire from lobster fishing any time soon.

roy payzant 91 year old fishermanRoy Payzant heads out to sea at 6 a.m., where he and his two-man crew haul 250 lobster traps every day the weather is decent, which recently meant a six-day week. Some evenings he’s in bed by 8 p.m. and he’s up at 5 a.m. to do it all again. “I never have to set an alarm clock,” which isn’t surprising given Payzant has been doing this for almost 75 years. He turns 92 next month and is a full-time lobster fisherman. Read more here 11:21