Bar Harbor Lobster Hatchery

Not mine, but pretty nifty to see what they use.

They pull water in from the bay and use the hot water heater to get it up to 80 degrees. At that temperature the lobster go twice as quickly.

They acquire the eggs from female lobsters and hatch/raise them in those bubbling tubes. It keeps the baby lobsters from attaching each other. Once they are too heavy to be suspended in the water they are brought out in boats and dumped into the ocean.

Their rate of mortality is only 60% while in the wild to get to the same point its more like 98%

 

That's kinda' cool. Interesting how much faster they can grow with higher water temperature... & predators eliminated.

 

huh, i didnt even know they could survive in such warm water