THE BIGGEST LOBSTER LIE ON THE INTERNET
A 2 POUND LOBSTER IS A JUMBO LOBSTER
PURE BUNK!
Lobsters are graded by size and each size has a name. Nothing has changed in the grading of lobsters in a century except on many websites that are selling lobsters. We find this irritating to advertise the incorrect sizes of lobsters. The real names are Chix or Chicken Lobsters, Quarters, Halves, 3 Quarters, Small Selects, Selects, Large Selects and Jumbos. The most reoccurring piece of misinformation about lobsters on the internet websites is that a Jumbo lobster is 2 pounds. SORRY SCALLYWAGS, a 2 pound lobster is a SELECT. Selects are GRADED 2.0, 2.25, 2.50, 3.0, 3.5. Lobsters weighing 4 to 10 pounds and larger are Jumbos. Lobster Halves are not large lobsters they are mediums. Time and the internet has not changed the terminology. Just the Scallywags and they don't seem to have changed much or learned much. FYI a Scallywag (Scallie or Scallly) hangs around the pier looking for little work and mostly offers erroneous opinions on most anything, a not to be trusted individual. Check out our Maine Lobster Grading Page
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Mothering myth of Homarus Americanus. Female Maine lobsters care for
their young. The eggs hatch and they are in the tiny larval stage.
Females can deposit a great number of eggs from 5,000 to 100,000
depending on her size The female allows the larva to hold on for a
short period and then fans them out from under her tail and they are on
their own. They of course are extremely small and in a short time take
on the appearance of a minute lobster through many molts. The lucky
ones are swept toward the shore to the safety of the harbors, inlets
and bays where they can feed and grow while hiding out in the seaweed
along the shore. You can go down to any dock at night with a flash
light and point the light into the seaweed that grows along the edge of
the water and hundreds of pairs of pink eyes stare back at you. They
are hiding. Growing up for a lobster is not an easy life; it mostly
consists of hiding and fighting while trying to get something to eat.
They eat almost anything live or dead.
The actual
number of Maine lobsters that make it to adult size may be as little as two
from one hatching. At their one inch size they are prey to Scup, perch
and just about any other fish that sees them. As they get bigger and
move out to open water, they are prey for Cod, Bass, Fluke and just
about any fish with a mouth large enough to swallow them. There is one
fish, the Atlantic Wolffish that seeks out lobsters pulling them right
out of their dens. With their tooth laden, powerful jaws they can crush
a two pound lobster in one bite. Striped bass never pass up a lobster.
We have caught many bass where the stomach contents are numerous small
Maine lobsters. The old world record for striped bass was caught on a lobster
about a hundred years ago off Gay Head Point on Martha's Vineyard. It was common to
use Maine lobster as bait but not so much now.
Lovers myth. It says that
Maine lobsters hold claws together like human couples hold hands. Baloney
they are fighting; first to let go is lunch.
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