Lobster at mukilteo

[H20doctor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOAtTQdlo2k&

[spatman]

Mmm, tasty.

[Linedog]

He looks lost.

[RenaB]

Do we get those here? And did you eat him?

[spatman]

Do we get those here? And did you eat him?

Unfortunately, they are not native here. This was likely a restaurant escapee or was liberated by a compassionate seafood shopper.

[ohopdiver]

Maybe it escaped from Ivar's

[Jeff Kruse]

I have seen them at Edmonds also over the years. I have been told its part of a religious thing around the new year to release a shelfish. I have never seen a small one that implied they were breading.

[RenaB]

So could they breed? What is required for them to be able to, and if they do would they interfere with our native species? Personally, I think it has something to do with that migration out to see every winter. Scientists think it has something to do with storms, but I am wondering if they venture to breeding grounds, and here they just don't know how to find each other?

[RenaB]

I have seen them at Edmonds also over the years. I have been told its part of a religious thing around the new year to release a shelfish. I have never seen a small one that implied they were breading.

That's so sad that he will never be able to fulfill his life goal to mate and make more little lobsters; therefore you should eat him.

[Paladin4Christ]

So could they breed? What is required for them to be able to, and if they do would they interfere with our native species?

Ok when a Daddy lobster and Mommy lobster love each other...

Ok when it's put up there like a lobbed softball, you can't help but swing.

[RenaB]

HAHA AHHH HA! Yeah!

[ORDiver]

I'm pretty sure that the lack of substantially warmer water here (unlike the north Atlantic) in the summer prevents them from breeding.

[RenaB]

AH HA! That makes sense! Well to me, even when the mommy lobster and daddy lobster love each other.....

[Greg Jensen]

Actually it's the lack of cold water that prevents them from breeding here. For reasons that aren't clear, female lobsters need a long period of very cold water (32-41 degrees) for the eggs to properly attach to their pleopods.