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Archive for 2007/10


Search on for Missing Lobsterman

Rocky Shore lines such as this one in Maine make Lobster fishing very dangerous at times
A major search and rescue operation was launched for a missing lobster fisherman along the Aberdeenshire coast after the wreckage of a lobster boat was discovered off a small island. The harbor master reported that a local lobster boat, […]

October is National Seafood Month!

Celebrate National Seafood Month with Gourmet Seafood Items from Lobster Gram
October is National Seafood Month! Time to celebrate all the tasty treats from the sea as well as the health benefits that come along with eating them! Seafood is rich in protine and Omega-3, while being low on cholesterol, and fat! With literally hundreds of […]

Huge Lobster Caught

That is one Huge Lobster! Judging by the size of it, that tail they harvest probably tips the scales at a good 5 lbs or more!

Shipment of Spiny Lobsters Stolen

Brazilian Lobster
A truck load of Nicaraguan spiny lobster tails reportedly worth $650,000 was stolen this week while in route from a Preferred Freezer Services warehouse in Medley, Fla., to Jacksonville, Fla. Calls to Mike Cara, president of MCST Preferred Warehouse in Miami, were unanswered at press time. Daniel DiDonato, VP of sales for Preferred […]

Lobster Fishermen Win Battle With Octopus

Rock lobster fishermen in south-eastern Australia have a new weapon in the fight against marauding octopus. The tentacled creatures eat lobsters and constantly raid lobster pots, causing millions of dollars of lost production. But a Western Australian-designed trap, about to be trailed off South Australia, catches the octopus without killing them. Trap developer Craig Camilleri […]

Salmon Killed by Chlorine Pipe Break

Coho Salmon
Salmon were killed this week after chlorinated water from a burst pipe gushed into a fish-bearing creek. The water main broke Monday while workers were excavating at the roadside. Chlorine filled the air as the water flowed out of the pipe, onto the road and into the adjacent Anderson Creek. Fisheries and Oceans Canada […]

18 Lb Lobster Released Back Into Ocean

Letting Ralph the Lobster go
While some might have looked at Ralph and wondered – perhaps dreamed – of all the sandwiches you’d have gotten out of Yarmouth County’s giant lobster, Gerald Smith decided to give Ralph a taste of something different. A taste of freedom. Last Wednesday the Grove Road resident waded out into the […]

Giant Crab Caught

Crab lover Hugh Clench couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted a monster crab. Hugh picked up the beast, named Neptune, when shopping at Shoreham harbor. It measures 270mm (11in) in diameter and weighs a whopping 4kg. Hugh, 58, said: “When I saw this in the tank at the fishmongers I knew it was special […]

Brothers Fined, Boat Seized for Not Obeying Scallop Catch Limits

Scallop Dredge
Two brothers who took more than three times their legal limit of scallops from Mercury Island have each been fined $750 and their father’s trailer boat, which they were using at that time, has been forfeited to police. Matthew James Osborne, a 31-year-old solicitor from Mission Bay in Auckland and Michael Graeme Osborne, a […]