Here is a Mamma lobster with all the eggs attached. They excrete them one at a time and attach around 3000 where they will stay until hatching.
That is a normal sized screen that you are looking through, over a piece of PVC pipe. The lobsters are fully formed at this stage and must be kept separate to avoid them eating each other or injuring each other.
Here are the baby lobsters in a tank. The tank is heavily stirred with air bubbles in order to keep the young lobsters apart from each other.
Kathy next to some of the tanks.
This was our teacher at the lobster hatchery in Bar Harbor Maine. He is also a lobster fisher and owner of the hatchery. A very interesting man and funny too.
We finally made it back to Bar Harbor Maine after many years. We have had lobster on our minds since leaving the western U.S. so we didn't mess around when we got here. These guys are three pounds each or maybe a little more.
They didn't last long after being steamed, Along with a pound of melted butter they were great. I think we will do that again!!!
Kathy and I were married in 1985. In 1999 I retired and we hit the road fulltiming in our 1999 Winnebago Chieftain 36 foot diesel pusher. Our RV journeys have taken us through 49 states, Canada and Mexico. We have visited most of the European countries but only by train, automobile and bus. Starting in April 2010 we will begin touring Europe in our smaller 23 foot diesel class C RV. We have also been to North Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and some of the Far East.