When a lobster man returns home, lobsters must be held alive until they can be brought to market. This is often done by keeping lobsters in a buoyed and locked crate offshore called a “lobster car”. Lobsters are retrieved when they are ready for market.
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The lobster and crustaceans are members of the Arthropod phylum. Crustaceans are characterized by hard shells and jointed appendages. Other crustaceans that may be familiar include shrimp, green crabs, rock crabs, spider crabs, and barnacles.
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Lobster men close lobster claws with thick rubber bands. This is done solely to protect lobsters from each other. Un-banded lobsters in tight quarters tend to grapple and lose claws, leaving them commercially less valuable. Before rubber bands, lobster men drove wooden pegs into the joints of lobster’s claws. While effective, this occasionally caused infection […]

NO! Fresh water and ice is lethal to a lobster. The Maine lobster has salty blood and tissue, which require a seawater environment to maintain life.
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Lobster Fact:
Yes, lobsters do have teeth and they are located in their stomach! The teeth are used to grind food into tiny particles for digestion.
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Fact:
Scallops are the family Pectinidae of bivalve mollusks. Like the true oysters, they have a central adductor muscle, and thus their shells have a characteristic central scar marking its point of attachment. However, the adductor muscle of scallops is larger and more developed than that of oysters because they are active swimmers and the […]

Lobster Fact:
Berried female lobsters carry thousands of eggs attached to their swimmerettes. Depending on water temperatures, the eggs will remain attached for about a year on average. Only 0.1% of the prelarva will survive over six weeks after being released at hatching. V-notching is a fishery management practice used as a conservation method, and consists […]