LOBSTER

[robc22]

Same lobster just an odd colour, not quite an albino more to do with pigments in the shell I would guess that would make it turn more yellow/ochre than normal

 

yellow lobsters are quite rare. A local aquarium would have been happy to take the animal. I didn't realize it at the time and ended up cooking the lobster.......oops!!!!

 

Here's what our state lobster biologist had to say.......

 

Hi Rob,

 

Yes the lobster in the picture was a yellow lobster. It is rare, probably one in ten million.

 

Other than just being an interesting color variation, the different color does not appear to have any other significance.

 

Thanks,

 

Bob Glenn

Senior Marine Fisheries Biologist

MADMF

[big_cod]

Here is good one for you we were fishing some rough ground 25 miles from whitby the depth of the water is around 44 fathoms which in real money is 264ft the lads were bait fish with squid the drift which we were doing was about 200 yds long over some very rough ground half way through one of the drifts one of the lads got snagged on the botton and lost his trace which was baited with a full calamari squid the very next drift we set up again to drift over the same ridges now you have to remember the depth we were fishing in a guy who was fishing next to the lad who had snapped off the drift before caught his trace which he had lost and to my amaizment when he pulled it to the surface there was a 3lb lobster tangled on the trace which had been lost it took me 5 miniutes to calm the pair down they were litterally fisty cuffs over this lobster as to who was going to claim it.

 

paul.

[robc22]

Here is good one for you we were fishing some rough ground 25 miles from whitby the depth of the water is around 44 fathoms which in real money is 264ft the lads were bait fish with squid the drift which we were doing was about 200 yds long over some very rough ground half way through one of the drifts one of the lads got snagged on the botton and lost his trace which was baited with a full calamari squid the very next drift we set up again to drift over the same ridges now you have to remember the depth we were fishing in a guy who was fishing next to the lad who had snapped off the drift before caught his trace which he had lost and to my amaizment when he pulled it to the surface there was a 3lb lobster tangled on the trace which had been lost it took me 5 miniutes to calm the pair down they were litterally fisty cuffs over this lobster as to who was going to claim it.

 

paul.

 

nice story......nothing like a unexspected lobster dinner to brighten one's day!!!

[Brian Carragher]

Fairly Close on your color/geographical location guess brian, they are new england lobsters...I caught this lobby a coupla years ago....lets see what you make of this then!!

 

Nice that I was somewhere near then, does that mean I've passed my lobster test

[chesters1]

so those floats and lines with cages on belong to someone then?

[robc22]

Nice that I was somewhere near then, does that mean I've passed my lobster test

 

 

With flying COLORS!!

[Brian Carragher]

No

 

They're only there so folk without sounders know where the hard ground is or to provide a tying off point instead of anchoring

[robc22]

No

 

They're only there so folk without sounders know where the hard ground is or to provide a tying off point instead of anchoring

 

 

Yeah the commercial guys love seeing someone tied up to one of there strings........wouldn't recommend it

[robc22]

Does anyone on this site fish for prawns or lobsters ? Or engages in shellfishing in general???

 

thanks

rob

 

 

Just finished checking my traps or some of them I should say. We have a ten pot limit and allowed a limit of 15 lobsters. Fishing was so good today I had to stop checking my traps at #5 as I had my limit. A very nice sunday.