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Feb 21, 10 Comments Off
 Lobster Eggs Morning all, talk about a late e-mail, I almost forgot all about it this morning. Yesterday was to busy and to crazy to get this out and I left the house early this morning to walk the dogs and work on my new trail at Saint Joris. Busy, busy, busy!!
Here’s something I have never seen before, this is the tail of a live lobster filled with thousands of eggs! Yesterday while at work my friend Kelly who runs most of the aquarium area asked if I wanted to see something really crazy and of course I said lead the way. Well he took me to one of the new aquariums that had two big female Caribbean Spiny Lobsters inside and ever so carefully picked one up to show me the thousands of tiny eggs underneath her tail, it was amazing!! 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. When the eggs hatch, the larvae will float near the surface for 4 to 6 weeks. The few that survive will settle to the bottom and continue to develop as baby lobsters. From every 50,000 eggs only 2 lobsters are expected to survive to legal size. 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. Pretty amazing huh?? My friend Kelly who helped yesterday got pretty cut up from holding the lobster, they have very sharp spines all over their bodies and antenna.
Tomorrow’s Aimee’s birthday, her e-mail is aimeedolphins@yahoo.com I have to go, so much to do today!! Enjoy the weekend, Barry
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