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.