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  rock lobster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A type of spiny lobster, also commonly known as a "rock lobster" are tropical in origin and are a common sight on Philippine reefs.
Rock lobsters may be seen out in the open during the day or night, but seem to prefer the cover of night.
Rock lobsters, also known affectionately in diver slang as "bugs", are usually seen alone or in pairs, but they may also congregate in large groups.
www.divegallery.com /lobster.htm   (235 words)

  
 SeaFIC - Rock Lobster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Spiny rock lobsters are carnivorous and live in and around reefs in depths ranging from 5 to 275 metres.
The fishery is also controlled by size restrictions: for a lobster to be of legal size, the width between the primary spines on the second segment of the tail must be greater than 54mm for a male lobster and 60mm for a female.
Rock lobster flesh is firm with a sweet medium and rich taste, and retains its shape in most styles of cooking.
www.seafood.co.nz /business/fishaqua/species/rocklob.asp   (219 words)

  
 fishSA.com - Southern Rock Lobster [Gone Fishing - Fish File]
In the female rock lobster, the genital pore is found at the base of the third pair of walking legs, where the eggs are released.
Female rock lobster have inner and outer pleopods which are used to carry eggs, whilst the male rock lobster has four pairs of single pleopods.
Rock lobster must be measured along the middle and on top of the carapace from the front edge of the groove between the antennae, to the rear edge of the carapace.
www.fishsa.com /lobster.php   (1813 words)

  
 Seafood Industry of Victoria
Rock lobsters are marine crustaceans and prefer to live in sheltered caves, under rocks and in crevices from close inshore to depths greater than 200 metres.
Rock lobsters can grow to 23cm measured as carapace length, which is from the eye to the head/tail join in the middle of the animal.
The lobsters are measured as they are removed from the pot with the undersize ones being returned directly to the water.
www.siv.com.au /lobster.htm   (910 words)

  
 Lobster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lobsters live on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms from the shoreline to beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
The anatomy of the lobster includes the cephalothorax which is the head fused with the thorax, both of which are covered by the carapace, and the abdomen.
Because a lobster lives in a murky environment at the bottom of the ocean, its vision is poor and it mostly uses its antennae as sensors.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lobster   (1431 words)

  
 ROCK LOBSTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
According to the lobsters themselves, there have been clerics as high as 9th level and wizards as high as 10th level among their ranks, though such individuals are rare.
Rock lobsters maintain close relations with their fellow "exiles" from the Elemental Plane of Water: the tritons.
Rock lobsters are known in academic circles as the "mentors of the deep", and for good reason.
home.comcast.net /~timcoyle/Monster_RockLobster.html   (827 words)

  
 DPIW - Rock Lobster Fishing
A licence is needed to take rock lobster and you must be 10 years of age or older to obtain a rock lobster licence.
Rock lobster that are not kept should be released carefully in the area from which they were taken and not over a sandy bottom.
Have possession of a rock lobster tail that is less than 50 mm across the widest point of the anterior end of the tail.
www.dpiw.tas.gov.au /inter.nsf/WebPages/ALIR-4YG496?open   (754 words)

  
 Rock Lobster - NIWA Science
Commonly known in New Zealand as crayfish, rock lobsters or spiny lobsters differ from the clawed lobsters found overseas by their lack of large crushing pincers on the first pair of walking legs.
New Zealand’s red rock lobster (koura) grows to 8 kg and 60 cm and is common on reefs and areas of rough seabed throughout the country.
Rock lobsters are a traditional food source for Māori and are important in customary fisheries.
www.niwascience.co.nz /ncfa/aquaspecies/lobster   (648 words)

  
 Lobster Biology, Introduction
Roasted, pulverized, and dissolved in wine, the lobster's rostrum served as a general remedy for a variety of urinary diseases, as well as for purging kidney stones.
Lobster meat was valued as a diuretic, as was the broth made from boiling lobsters.
Their gastrolith, a calcareous "rock" found in the stomachs of lobsters preparing to shed their shell, was used for eye inflammations and as a remedy for stomach aches and epilepsy.
www.lobsters.org /tlcbio/biology.html   (478 words)

  
 Tas Rock Lobster
These lobsters are totally protected in Tasmania and South Australian waters and must be returned to the water immediately.Rock lobsters have several recognisable life stages.
Male and female lobsters are distinguished by several physical characteristics.Possibly the easiest method of distinguishing males from females is the difference in the fifth walking legs (counting from the front to back).
Another method for determining the sex of the rock lobster is by looking at the pleopods (swimmers) located under the tail.
www.tasrocklobster.com.au /viewpage.php?page_id=5   (363 words)

  
 Fish Tales - What Fish is That - Department of Fisheries, Govt of Western Australia
Most western rock lobsters are usually red in colour but their colour can vary from creamy white to purple-fl.
Female rock lobsters carrying fertile eggs are known to be in the condition called ‘berried’.
The largest western rock lobster reported to researchers at the WA Marine Research Laboratories weighed a massive 5.5kg.
www.fish.wa.gov.au /fishtales/what/what_rocklobster.htm   (440 words)

  
 DPIW - Rock Lobster Gear
The hole in the middle of the neck of a rock lobster pot has to be large enough to allow a buoy of 200 mm in diameter to pass through it without touching the sides.
Licence number of the recreational fishing licence (rock lobster pot, ring or dive) must be marked on the buoy.
All rock lobster in a fish cauf need to be tail fan clipped and normal possession limits apply.
www.dpiw.tas.gov.au /inter.nsf/WebPages/ALIR-4YR6EE?open   (451 words)

  
 Other Lobster Species   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In France this lobster is called homard; in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, it is a hummer.
One of the strangest sights reported by fishermen and divers is the "lobster march." Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of spiny lobsters form columns of as many as 60 lobsters to migrate en masse, often after a storm.
Slipper lobsters are harvested in shallow, tropical waters from muddy bottoms, but they are not as highly sought after as other lobsters.
octopus.gma.org /lobsters/allaboutlobsters/species.html   (426 words)

  
 Red Lobster Recipes
The easiest way to cook a Maine lobster is to boil for 12 minutes in salted water.
Remove lobster and serve with melted butter, lemon wedges, lobster crackers and lots and lots of napkins.
Lobster is done when it is opaque and firm to the touch.
www.redlobster.com /seafood/recipes.asp   (207 words)

  
 The Food Timeline: history notes--lobster, crab & shrimp
The spiny lobsters are indubitably lobsters, bu they differ from the archetypal lobsters of the N. Atlantic in having no claws and in belonging to warmer waters.
Lobster rolls, as we know them today, are probably a 20th century invention because they require soft hot dog buns.
A designation given to a method of preparing and cooking lobster in which the creature (up to this point alive) is cut in half and grilled, has its flesh sliced up and returned to the half shell in bechamel sauce with various added flavourings, and is then browned under the grill again and served.
www.foodtimeline.org /foodlobster.html   (6497 words)

  
 FishVictoria.com - Rock Lobster
When taking rock lobster, you must not take or possess female rock lobster in berry (with eggs) or with young attached, or remove the eggs, spawn, setae or fibres from any female rock lobster.
This must be done within 5 minutes of bringing rock lobsters onto a boat (if taken from a boat) or, if taken from the shore, within 5 minutes of landing and within 50m of the place of landing.
HOW TO MEASURE: Rock lobster is measured from the front edge of the groove between the large antennae to the nearest part of the rear edge of the carapace (main body shell).
www.fishvictoria.com /fishvic/pfish/pcrust/rock_lobster.php   (365 words)

  
 Welcome to the Tasmanian Rock Lobster Export Processors
The lobster is harvested by skilled fishermen from boats around the entire Tasmanian coastline.
After harvesting, the premium lobster is carefully processed through operations that are meticulously controlled to ensure the very highest standards of health, hygiene and quality, to ensure that product reaches its destination in perfect condition and in line with customers requirements.
The Tasmanian rock lobster fishery has been sustainably managed for over 120 years and has been an important component of the State’s fishing industry for over 150 years.
www.tasrocklobsterexporters.com.au   (362 words)

  
 Buy Australian split rock lobster and Maine lobster from Gorton's Fresh Seafood
Fresh, live rock lobsters are boiled immediately upon arrival from the fishing vessel to ensure freshness and tenderness.
It is recommended that you thaw the lobster halves prior to cooking by removing them from the plastic wrapped tray and storing them in the refrigerator one day before cooking.
Each fresh lobster is prepared by removing the “gurrie” (liver, stomach, etc.) then frozen and glazed with a starch coating afterwards to protect the lobster from freezer dehydration.
www.gortonsfreshseafood.com /product/79   (635 words)

  
 Red Lobster Press Releases
Rock Lobster, Crab and Scallops — A broiled rock lobster tail is served with sweet snow crab legs and savory bacon-wrapped sea scallops.
Lobster in Paradise — A Rock lobster tail or twin Rock tails are broiled and served with irresistible Parrot Bay Coconut Shrimp and piña colada dipping sauce.
Also showcased this year is a Lobster and Crab Stuffed Fish entrée that offers a broiled fish fillet of Tilapia, Flounder, Sole or Opah stuffed with lobster meat and savory deviled crab served with steamed vegetables and wild rice pilaf.
www.redlobster.ca /company/press.asp?prid=83   (679 words)

  
 Southern Rock Lobster photos and information
The commercial fishery for Southern Rock Lobster is based mainly in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.
The lobsters are caught in wood, cane or steel pots baited with whole fish or fish heads.
Approximately half the Southern Rock Lobster catch is exported, mainly to Japan, Taiwan and the United States of America.
www.sea-ex.com /fishphotos/Lobstersthn.htm   (245 words)

  
 Southern Rock Lobster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Stewart Frusher at the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute is in charge of assassing the lobster stocks and providing management advice.
For Southern rock lobster, the curve obtained from three tagging experiments suggests __mm are the most catchable.
Later in the season, when most large lobsters have been fished out, the small lobsters are more catchable.
www.fisheries.vims.edu /hoenig/rocklobster.htm   (316 words)

  
 A History of Midwest Rock Lobster
In the early days, Lobsterism was confined to 'agrarian reform' schemes for the school, trying to cop guitar riffs off heavy metal albums, the pursuit of girls, and advancing Lobsterism as a religion.
For the school day, each person or Lobster would have full property rights to their parcel, so that only by obtaining formal permission from a the temporary owner of an adjacent plot would movement be possible.
And Mayhem, a prominent figure in the Lobster movement focused on The Beatles, a band the Founder dismissed as 'talentless' and 'sonic criminals.' There was general agreement on Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and early Yes.
www.midwestrocklobster.com /origins.html   (1880 words)

  
 Buy Lobster tails and Maine lobster from Gorton's Fresh Seafood
Coldwater lobster tails are far superior to those that come from warm water lobsters.
To retain their firm, white meat and mild flavor, these lobster tails are processed and frozen immediately upon arrival in spotless state-of-the-art seafood plants.
Frozen lobster tails are then vacuum packed in pairs so that they are of the highest quality when they arrive at your door.
www.gortonsfreshseafood.com /product/2   (556 words)

  
 Fishing for Rock Lobster (Crayfish), Department of Fisheries, Western Australia, Fish for the Future
Lobsters below the minimum or above the maximum size may not be taken, and must be returned to the water within five minutes of capture.
Make sure you carry an accurate gauge to measure lobster carapaces, as rulers and tape measures are not accurate enough.
Recreational fishers using lobster pots between Wedge Island and Freshwater Point, south of Dongara are now required to fit sea lion exclusion devices to their pots to prevent the mortality of sea lion pups that get caught in pots.
www.fish.wa.gov.au /docs/pub/FishingRockLobsters   (289 words)

  
 Stavis Seafoods - Features - Rock Shrimp
Rock lobster (without claws) is a known delicacy that is highly prized the world over.
Found in warm and cold waters, rock lobster is sold as live, tails and whole cooked.
Regardless of the country of origin, cold water lobsters are produced under optimum processing conditions.
www.stavis.com /features/coldwaterrocklobsterfeature.html   (185 words)

  
 Rock lobster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spiny rock lobsters are bothcarnivorous and filter feeding, they live in and around reefs in depths ranging from 5 to 275 metres.
Australia is known for it's JUMBO lobsters, with lobsters weighing more than 3kilos.
The rock lobster has among the longest larval development known for any marine creature.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rock_lobster   (223 words)

  
 Rock Lobster Photo Gallery - Welcome !
Lobster Fest was held at the Tempe Town Lake.
Rock Lobster has some fun with the kiddos and family at the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park.
This was Rock Lobster with a twist, Dallan sang and Chris O. rocked on drums.
www.rocklobsterband.com /gallery   (879 words)

  
 Best Fish Guide
Description: Rock lobster is found throughout New Zealand coastal waters living in and around rocky reefs at depths of 5 to 275m.
The main concerns with this fishery are: the depleted state of stocks, in particular the southern rock lobster (CRA 7 and 8), the increasing uncertainty of annual catch levels in the medium-term, the unknown status of some stocks, and the lack of a management plan.
Distribution: Rock lobster is found along most rocky coastlines in New Zealand but is more abundant in the south of the South Island and the Chatham Islands.
www.forestandbird.org.nz /bestfishguide/species/rocklobster.asp   (448 words)

  
 Western Rock Lobster
The Western Rock Lobster is regarded as one of the best and most sought after seafoods in the world.
Caught in the pristine waters off Western Australia, the unique Western Rock Lobster is served at many of the best restaurants around the world.
The Western Australian Western Rock Lobster fishery is one of the first fisheries in the world to receive Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) accreditation as a sustainable well managed fishery and the right to market its lobster under the MSC promoted eco-label.
www.western-rock-lobster.com   (202 words)

  
 Rock Lobster Tails
In a small bowl combine 2 teaspoons of the lemon or lime juice, olive oil, garlic, and chili powder; brush on exposed lobster meat.
Grill lobster, meaty side down, on the rack of an uncovered grill directly over medium coals for 6 minutes, brush again with lemon mixture, turn and grill 6 to 8 minutes more or until meat is opaque in the center.
Meanwhile, for dipping sauce, in a small bowl combine light mayonnaise or salad dressing, dillweed, lemon or lime peel, and remaining lemon or lime juice.
www.lhj.com /recipe/recipedetail.jhtml?recipeId=R019096   (170 words)

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