| ALL ABOUT LOBSTERS
The largest lobster on record, according to the Guinness Book of World
Records, is 44 pounds, 6 ounces.
Lobster fishermen in Rhode Island may legally fish yearround, but most
only trap lobsters from June to December.
Lobsters have 5 pairs of legs.
Lobsters grow very slowly, taking an average of 5 to 7 years to grow
to market size. They grow more slowly as they get larger, so a lobster
that weighs 25 pounds would be about 75 to 100 years old.
To calculate the age of a lobster, multiply the lobster's weight by 4,
then add 3.
Lobsters can be cannibals, which is why their claws are banded when they're
kept in close quarters.
A lobster's brain is about the same size as a grasshopper's.
Lobsters usually eat at night, and herring is often used as bait in traps.
Nearly 90 percent of Amercan Lobsters, homarus americanus, are caught
off the coast of Maine.
The green stuff on the inside of lobsters is called tomale or tomalley
and is the lobster's liver. Some people consider it a delicacy.
Lobsters are not easy to raise in captivity, and no one has done so with
much success.
The price of a lobster weighing a pound and a quarter this last week
at Dockside Seafood, in Warwick, is $6.99.
Sources:
www.mit.edu
www.bayleys.com
www.lobsters.org
www.bestlobster.com
www.octopus.gam.org
www.foodreference.com
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