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COLDWATER LOBSTER ASSOCIATION
368 Main Street
Suite 105, Lovitt Plaza
Yarmouth, NS B5A 1E9
Phone: 1.902.742.5247
Email: admin@coldwaterlobster.ca
Web: www.coldwaterlobster.ca
Do lobsters have teeth? The teeth of a lobster are in its stomach. The stomach is located a very short distance from the mouth, and the food is actually chewed in the stomach between three grinding surfaces that look like molar surfaces, called the “gastric mill.”
Can lobsters smell their food? Lobsters “smell” their food by using four small antennae on the front of their heads and tiny sensing hairs that cover their bodies. Their sense of smell is so fine that they can sniff out a single amino acid that tags their favorite food.
Do lobsters lay eggs? A freshly laid lobster egg is the size of the head of a pin (1/16″). A 1-pound female lobster usually carries approximately 8,000 eggs. A 9-pound female may carry more than 100,000 eggs. The female lobster carries the eggs inside for 9 to 12 months and then for another 9 to 12 months externally attached to the swimmerets under her tail.
Do many young lobsters survive to old age? Lobster babies swim at water surface for 25 days. Only one percent make it to the bottom. These young lobsters shed their shells about ten times in their first year. A near-shore lobster has a 90% chance of ending up on someone’s dinner plate.
The largest lobster ever documented was a 44-pounder (20-kg) caught off Nova Scotia in 1977, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.