Built the Best,
Built to Last,
Built Your Way
Since its founding in 1977, Friendship Trap Company has worked closely with lobstermen (and women) to refine the art of trap building. Innovation, quality and service have earned us a reputation for providing traps that are Built the Best, Built to Last, and Built Your Way!
BUILT THE BEST
With a staff of seasoned veterans on our production floors, and key leaders with over thirty years' experience building traps, you can depend on quality craftsmanship from Friendship Trap. Add to that the many innovations developed here over the years, and you get the best lobster traps in the industy. Our "Rockbottom" line of inshore and offshore lobster traps with built-in, specially-formulated concrete ballast runners have the greatest structural strength available in a lobster trap. They are maintenance-free, and because they require no other ballast, the trap is clean and free of obstructions that might slow you down when hauling. Our clip-in vinyl-coated steel trap ballast blocks are designed to be heavier in the water and lighter on deck to make handling traps easier. We at Friendship Trap Company continue to invent and craft new products to insure you have the best equipment to maximize your catch. Customers have told us that they couldn't build a better trap themselves!
BUILT TO LAST
You will never find anything but the very best material in a Friendship Trap. The temptation to cut corners to save a buck when making a lobster trap is great, but when you consider the cost of repairs, lost fishing time and early replacement, the lifetime value of quality becomes clear. Additionally, we test many of our components to levels well beyond typical use to insure they will stand up to the extreme demands of the North Atlantic. You can count on Friendship Trap to deliver the greatest value over the long life of your trap.
BUILT YOUR WAY
The first step in making sure traps are Built Your Way is an understanding of what you actually want. With the industry's only full-time field sales representative, and well-positioned locations both in the Mid-coast and Downeast, we are committed to actually being able to talk to you face-to-face if necessary to insure we get it right. Our precision order process insures regular on-going communication between you, sales, production, dispatching, and all the way through delivery to make certain that you get what you want when you want it. Our service includes delivery from coastal Canada to the mid-Atlantic. We pride ourselves in meeting your special needs, and we love it when a customer comes back with a trap that they purchased 30 years ago from Friendship Trap wanting us to make another set just like it! If getting it Your Way means you want to build it yourself, we will happily provide you with custom-cut wire kits and all of the accessories that you require.
The lobster industry faces a lot of challenges - shifting seasons, whale rope protection rules, increased bait and fuel prices, lobster market issues, and more. Because our livelihood is inseparably linked to the lobstermen, we share those challenges. Therefore, we are committed to providing you with more efficient, maintenance-free lobster traps with the latest innovations to maximize your bang for the buck.
Our customers, the best lobstermen in the world, know how to catch lobsters.
We know how to build the best custom traps they require.
Trust Friendship Trap to make YOUR traps!
Thank you for your Business!
