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Saving endangered whales at no cost

By comparing the productivity of lobster fishing operations in American and Canadian waters...ndividuals show signs of entanglement, mostly from lobster fishing gear. In the new work, the researchers analyzed the costs and benefits of two dramatical...

Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

...at $50 to $70. Similarly, the restaurant price of lobster has tracked its fluctuating abundance and populari...Jones. "Prior to the 1880s, it was unusual to see lobster on menus at all except in bargain-priced lobster salad," he says. "It was considered a trash fish no...

New project aims to make large-scale lobster farms feasible

...they hope will make large-scale culturing of spiny lobster economically feasible. The project is based on the serendipitous discovery that lobster larvae are settling on open water fish cages in Puerto Rico by the thousands. The research, along wi...

In the sea slug's defense against lobsters, confusion is key

...nk and opaline's other effects, in distracting the lobster sufficiently to enable the slug's successful evasion. Because the set of behaviors stimulated by the slug's secretions resemble activation of a feeding pathway, the researchers named this novel chemical defense "phagomimicry." The stickiness of the ...

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