Northwest Dive Club

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

Mmm, tasty.

He looks lost.

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

RenaB wrote: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.

Maybe it escaped from Ivar's

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.

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?

Jeff Kruse wrote: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.

RenaB wrote: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.

HAHA AHHH HA! Yeah!

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

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

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.