Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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.

Saturday, August 22, 2009


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!!!