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AMERICAN LOBSTER Stable Homarus americanus Conservation Status Not threatened Range Map (Provided by Next Door Zoo)
FACT ONE FACT TWO
Lobsters are classified as crustaceans. Female lobsters are called hens and can Crustaceans include shrimp, crabs, krill and carry 100,000 eggs on their tail. Only 2 of crayfish. Lobsters have a hard shell, long antennae, these eggs have to survive to keep the eight walking legs and two large claws population stable.
FACT THREE FACT FOUR
Lobsters can live up to 50 years old, and American lobsters are commercial harvested in grow to be over 4 feet long! The largest New England and Canada. This fishery is a multi- recorded lobster weighted over 44 pounds! billion dollar industry. Globally, 200,000 tons of lobsters annually harvested.
For more information about lobsters: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/american-lobster: YOUTH EDUCATION
Overview Status
American lobsters are a cold water species of Today, lobsters are on the move. Due to crustacean that live in a rocky, sandy or even muddy increasing ocean water temperatures, lobsters are habitat. The large crushing claw is used for cracking moving north. Due to various factors including and feeding on shellfish. People have been eating warming waters, low oxygen levels, and disease, lobsters for centuries. The state of Maine is famous the lobster fishery collapsed in Long Island Sound for its lobster fishery. in late 1990's.
Life History How You Can Help
Lobsters have poor eyesight but have a highly Lobsters need clean water like all marine life. Keep developed sense of smell and taste. Codfish are plastics and other pollutants out of our ocean the main predator of small lobsters. Lobsters will waters. If you enjoy eating lobsters, ensure you feed on fish, crabs, clams, worms, mussels, sea purchase from a sustainable fishery source. If you urchins and even sea stars. catch lobsters, remember the laws on harvesting and especially throw back females with eggs.
Lobsters smell with their legs, can regrow lost limbs and their teeth are in their stomachs.