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  2. Lobster - Wikipedia

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    Lobster is fished in water between 2 and 900 metres (1 and 500 fathoms), although some lobsters live at 3,700 metres (2,000 fathoms). Cages are of plastic-coated galvanized steel or wood. A lobster fisher may tend to as many as 2,000 traps. Around the year 2000, owing to overfishing and high demand, lobster aquaculture expanded. [86]

  3. American lobster - Wikipedia

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    It is also known as Atlantic lobster, Canadian lobster, true lobster, northern lobster, Canadian Reds, [3] or Maine lobster. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It can reach a body length of 64 cm (25 in), and a mass of over 20 kilograms (44 lb), making it not only the heaviest crustacean in the world, but also the heaviest of all living arthropod species.

  4. List of animals by number of legs - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of selected animals in order of increasing number of legs, from 0 legs to 653 pairs of legs, the maximum recorded in the animal kingdom. [1] Each entry provides the relevant taxa up to the rank of phylum. Each entry also provides the common name of the animal.

  5. Florida’s lobster miniseason is back. Here are details on ...

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    Many lobster hunters catch them in six to 10 feet of water using only a mask, fins and snorkel. ... IF YOU GO. Lobster seasons: The annual lobster miniseason runs from 12:01 a.m. July 27 through ...

  6. Homarus gammarus - Wikipedia

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    On this European lobster, the right claw (on the left side of the image) is the crusher and the left claw is the cutter.. Homarus gammarus is a large crustacean, with a body length up to 60 centimetres (24 in) and weighing up to 5–6 kilograms (11–13 lb), although the lobsters caught in lobster pots are usually 23–38 cm (9–15 in) long and weigh 0.7–2.2 kg (1.5–4.9 lb). [3]

  7. Nephrops norvegicus - Wikipedia

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    Nephrops norvegicus adults prefer to inhabit muddy seabed sediments, with more than 40 percent silt and clay. [3] Their burrows are semi-permanent, [ 7 ] and vary in structure and size. Typical burrows are 20 to 30 centimetres (8 to 12 in) deep, with a distance of 50 to 80 centimetres (20 to 30 in) between the front and back entrances. [ 3 ]

  8. How the lobster became an unlikely status symbol — and a ...

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    Despite its shiny red exoskeleton and reputation as a bug of the sea, the lobster — though far from the world’s strangest delicacy — has long reigned as an unlikely luxury staple.

  9. Metanephrops challengeri - Wikipedia

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    Metanephrops challengeri is a slender lobster, typically 13–18 centimetres (5.1–7.1 in) long, but exceptionally up to 25 cm (9.8 in), [2] and weighing up to 100 grams (3.5 oz) each. [3] Its chelipeds (legs bearing the main chelae , or claws) are long, narrow, and slightly unequal. [ 4 ]