Talk:American lobster

message: As far as I can recall, the blue lobsters that have been caught/found have always been regular size adults. I don't recall ever having heard of a young/juvinile blue being found. This past weekend(sat, oct 20, 2007), at Brenton Point in Newport RI I found three tail segments of a baby blue, the segments being small enough that I can just barely fit my pinky finger inside of them. Don't know if this is anything that someone might be interested in knowing about - but I found it to be an amazing find.also even though lobsters like to swim they prefer to walk. signed: cavecrawler83@yahoo.com..  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.14.92.61 (talk) 17:11, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
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message: I've put my two acadian cents in, about the fishing crisis between acadians and Mik-mak indians in the canadian maritimes. I remember all that, I was there back then. Just not all that sure it fits in with all that stuff...-corosive_frog@hotmail.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.57.238 (talk) 03:17, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Acadian-indian lobster-related tensions of 1999

message: Is this the type of lobster you find in the Maritimes?--Sonjaaa 07:07, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
:Yes. (anon user) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.177.18.3 (talk • contribs) 01:18, 18 November 2004  (UTC)
Why is it called american lobster because most of it is caught by canadians and around nova scotia?
:I'd guess that the reason for this is that Canada is part of North America, and that this lobster is caught all along the northeastern seaboard of the continent. LocutusMIT 22:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Same as [[Maritimes]] lobster?

message: This page needs links. Anyone know any other resorces? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.5.147.2 (talk • contribs) 17:47, 7 April 2005  (UTC)
: The following links do not work and need to be removed or replaced:
: * "American lobster". NOAA FishWatch (http://www.fishwatch.gov/seafood_profiles/species/lobster/species_pages/american_lobster.htm)
: * The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine (http://www.lobster.um.maine.edu)
: * Rhode Island Sea Grant Fact Sheet (http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/factsheets/fslobster.html)
: 50.141.32.214 (talk) 03:07, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: I searched Google, finding that the only pages mentioning the terms "superlobster" and "postlarva" at the same time are quoting the Wikipedia article. Also, I did not find a single reference to lobsters referred to as "turds" after molting. I believe those entries are vandalisms and must be removed. -- Devil Master, 30 Mar 2006, 23:53 (MET)
Secret Life of Lobsters, a book about lobsters and the lobstering industry, documents superlobsters.  They are a stage in the development of a lobster in which they are able to swim, albeit clumsily, with their claws outstretched in front of them. Their appearance while swimming is reminiscent of Superman, so the (informal) nickname of a lobster in this stage is a "superlobster."  I don't know about calling them turds, that could entirely be vandalism.  Notostraca 23:03, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superlobsters? Turds? 

message: Blue lobster redirects here, but there is not so much as a sentence about it. --Centrx 07:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blue lobster 

message: Hey, I just added information about the yellow lobster. While I cant cite any sorces unfortunatly, I can state that it has passed away. My uncle owns The Rockland Cafe, which is where the lobster was located. my mother just got off the phone with him, and he had just finished explaining that he had just replaced the compressor a few weeks ago, and it died last night, causing him to loose all his lobsters in his resturant. If I can find a sorce *im sure it will be in rocklands newspaper* i will post it. Unfortunatly I live in Pennsylvania and am not making a trip back to Rockland untill next month.--Azslande 22:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For future reference, please note that Wikipedia is not the place for eye-witness news accounts. Please wait until an event has been published in a relible source, so that you can add the reference when you add the information. Thank you. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 00:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes I realise this, but I know for a fact that its been published, Im just having a hard time finding a link to a news article on it. If I cannot find a directly link within a few days, I have no problem with it being removed, I just know for a fact that it has happened.--Azslande 20:59, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yellow Lobster 

message: I had heard what perhaps is an urban legend that lobsters grew up to six feet in length during the 16th and 17th centuries, due to a paucity of their natural predators, codfish and man. RahadyanS 16:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats has reports of six-foot lobsters that could drag humans underwater and drown them. I'd say they're fanciful at best, but who knows? Sperm whales used to reach 90 feet before whaling became excessive. PenguinJockey 19:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lobster size during the English and Dutch colonization of the New York City area

message: "Lobsters are to be cooked in a pot of ass" and " "Lobsters are to be cooked i a po of ass" in the American Lobster industry paragraph at the end of the page appears to be vandalism. The Red Panda 21:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Vandalism 

message: http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/two-toned-lobster-caught-off-rhode/20070602192809990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001--63.152.13.93 04:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two-toned lobster found in Rhode Island 

message: If you cut them in half length-wise and grill them, they squirm and twitch as the nerves burn... scared the piss out of me the first time I saw that... Kingoomieiii 01:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grilling 

message: I think that the section on eggs should be moved under life cycle.  I really didn't understand the section on life cycle at all until I read the section on eggs.  Pafferguy (talk) 20:08, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Life cycle?

message: I think this page should have information on what the american lobster eats.  In fact, I will try to research that and add it later, but I hope someone else can do it first. Pafferguy (talk) 20:24, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lobster food?

message: This section is taken verbatim from . The information seems good but it is probably a copyright violation. Bob98133 (talk) 14:48, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Diet section plagairized 

message: From this page: http://science.jrank.org/pages/3982/Lobsters-Lobster-reproduction.html The page clearly states that the infromation is free but must be credited to source.Bob98133 (talk) 15:05, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life cycle - new edits plagiarized 

message: The latest Life Cycle one comes from this copyrighted page: Bob98133 (talk) 15:09, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  All recent edits by 24.128.29.198 are plagiarized 

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message: Please see Commons:User:Postdlf/Lobster; I just uploaded 14 pictures of live lobsters that I think are Homarus americanus.  I believe these illustrate details of their anatomy better than others previously available, particularly features of the head (and is that their mouth underneath?  weird).  Please take a look, help me write more informative descriptions and anatomical labels, and determine whether they might be helpful in this article.  Cheers, Postdlf (talk) 23:05, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New photo uploads 

message: I expanded this section today with info I found at the referenced site.  Since I'm not a copyvio expert nor a regular editor of this article, I'll understand any exception taken to my edit.  Thanks Tiderolls 23:12, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antennae 

message: I saw some at Wal-Mart a few months ago. I think they are still selling them. --72.197.35.238 (talk) 04:48, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You saw a Blue Crayfish, not a Blue Lobster. They're very different; those crayfish max out at like, 4-6 inches I am pretty sure. Procambarus alleni is the name. 67.249.178.169 (talk) 15:47, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blue lobsters aren't rare! 

message: This sounds more like an advertisement to call out the McLobster specifically.  Why wouldn't this just fit under a "lobster roll" section as a way to eat lobster? 155.212.30.130 (talk) 20:33, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The McLobster is encyclopedia-worthy? 

message: Would it be noteworthy to say that you can tell the diffrence between a male lobster and a female lobster based on the last two fins (Swimmerets, closest to body) on it's tail? Soft = Female, Hard = Male. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 15:26, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lobster Sex 

message: I don't know how to add the tag, but any part of this article before discussion of the color morph lacks sources. Can someone go in and add citations to the text? 67.249.178.169 (talk) 15:49, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: Howdy. Is it right, both the antennae und the antennules can sense odor and smell? According to A Guide to Lobstering in Maine the antennae is "a long, whip like pair used in touch and orientation" and only the antennules are "used in the chemical location of food". so? --92.195.31.71 (talk) 17:57, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Here too: slgo.ca "The large antennas are used particularly for touching, and allow lobsters to find their way in their environment. The small antennas allow them to recognize various chemical signals in water." --92.78.95.60 (talk) 10:58, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  smelling 

message: A reader provided a nice image of a blue lobster than may be better than the one currently in the article.
It needs a completed permissions statement, but I anticipate that soon. Completed
:File:Blue lobster.jpg--SPhilbrick(Talk) 15:37, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Not seeing any dissenting opinions, I went ahead with the change. Of course, we can still discuss.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 14:27, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential better image 

message: Surely the lead picture should be of an animal without bands on its claws.  Someone unfamiliat with lobsters might mistake these for yellow stripes!__DrChrissy (talk) 19:40, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  lead image is misleading 

message: The picture showing the lobster seems to be a cooked, and not live lobster. This seems like it would be very misleading to someone not familiar with the animal.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.244.39.104 (talk) 19:29, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better Top Picture? 

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message: The antennae are clearly longer than 2 inches (51 mm).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.30.179.46 (talk) 08:37, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Head - antennae  

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