About Plante Buoy Sticks

Eric deDoes

President, Plante's Lobster Escape Vents, Inc.

Born in Scarborough Maine, Eric has been on the water "since he could stand". He owned his first boat when he was twelve and has worked in the lobster industry for all of his life. He was employed by a retail fisherman supply store for fifteen years prior to managing and eventually purchasing Plante's Lobster Escape Vents, Inc. in 1999.

Plantes currently offers over 100 products to the lobstering and fishing industries and has new designs under development.

Patents:

Patent #6,457,896 Breakaway Coupling October 2002

Patent #6,602,101 Loop Bottom Buoy Stick, August 2003

Patent # D540032 Knife sheath

Greg Sabins, Manager

Greg graduated from Kennebec Valley Community College with the Bernard King Award. He maintained a 4.0 grade point average in Precision Machining Technology and earned an applied science degree.

He has been with Plante's since 2003 with responsibilities including but not limited to:

warehouse management, show promotion, sales, mechanical maintenance, fabrication and most recently mold making and machining.

He is solely responsible for Plante's being able to offer custom mold making. This enables us to add to our product line and broaden our customer base.