In 1989, Maine led the U.S. in landings with 24 million pounds. Nova Scotia was the leader in Canada with over 40 million pounds. The lobster is a invertebrate that lives in salt and fresh water. Lobsters live on the Atlantic and Pacific coast. Its has a hard shell that can be blue or ev en yellow, but turns bright red when boiled.
Lobsters are actually a large cray fish.
What Are Lobsters Up until the end of the 19th century lobster was so plentiful that it was used for fish bait. The Homarus americanus,The American lobster, is also known as the Massachusetts lobster, the Maine lobster, the Canadian lobster or the North Atlantic lobster. To date, there is no proven method to determine the exact age of a lobster. It is believed, however, that in the wild lobsters can approach 100 years or more in age. Information on the Lobster Lobsters belong to a major group of familiar invertebrates called the arthropods.