yea I don't think I'd want to try and take one of those guys snake, unless you don't like all your fingers.
Lotte you don't know what your missing. Personally I think it's the second best tasting animal from the ocean, right behind king crab.
Snake, is fishing banned because it's a marine preserve or is it only open to commerical trappers?
Last edited by hbh2oguard; 10-12-2007 at 10:15 PM.
Yes, lobsters here are completely the domain of commercial fisherman, and they can only be taken in traps.
Ones like these are much to big to fit in the traps and so just continue to grow.
Here is another interesting pic, a scan of a local newspaper clipping showing some lobster "anamolies" caught locally.
Last edited by seasnake; 10-16-2007 at 02:10 PM.
They are not banned here in NJ and those are the same ones we have. And yes, they can take your finger if you are not careful. They are much slower than we are so as long as you are quick.
Now here are two nice size lobster a friend of mine bagged. Notice the porthole on the deck he also grabbed!
Last edited by acelockco; 06-04-2008 at 02:04 AM.
Taste?
Hey Acelockco,
I've always wondered .....when they get that big do they still taste good??
I always assumed that when they get that big and old they would be tough or stringy or such.
Chris
Nope, they taste just as good but take longer to cook if you can find something big enough to cook them in. I was told that they are going to change the laws here limiting the maximum size you can take. It really does not make much sense to me, but I will follow the laws when they start.
Ace it might be different with a maine lobster but with a spiny lobster once they are five pounds or so they get tough, still ok for pasta. But the big ones are the largest produces and I would strongly reccomend releaseing them because their only predators are divers, because they don't fit in traps.
Yep, Ace, those are some big fellas! I was going to ask about size limits before you mentioned it ... so as it stands now, there are none? Yeh, taking the big producers I would think will affect the stocks in the long run?? *shrug*
You say they are slow but I once watched a diver poking and teasing a large lobster like that with a knife. The lobster slothfully endured the prodding for a minute and then, quicker than you can blink, he snatched the knife away from the diver!
When the guy was telling the story later on the surface, he said "all I was thinking was 'okay boys, now he's armed'."
Well, i've never tasted it at all in my life (same with crab as well)...so i'm not really that bothered as to whether i'm missing out on anything. Plus it probably tastes like chickenOriginally Posted by hbh2oguard
Down here, we have the spiny lobster...on one of my AOW dives, my instructor found one under a reef and tried to coax it out...he thinks it must have been about 2/3 foot in length !!!!
Lottie
Thankfully they come out to feed at night. But ace are the going to have a gauge with two markers on it or is it not finalized yet? Do you know what the max and min size will be assuming you measure the carapius/body(sp?)
I don't know what they actual sizes are going to be, they usually post a page with the limits at the begining of the year. As soon as I know I will let everyone else know.
As far as gauges go, we have never had them in NJ. Kind of strange if you ask me. So you don't have to have one on you while looking for bugs. Now that being said, I see that all sizes are usually brought up, then measured on the boat. They get tossed back if they are too small. I don't know if this is a bad thing to do or not, but it is what happens.
Now Lottie, DON'T EVER EAT CRAB OR LOBSTER
MORE FOR ME!!!!
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