Lobster Molting Video At Captain Joe and Sons

watch a lobster pull itself out of it’s exoskeleton

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Lobster Molting Pictures

Yesterday we had a lobster molt in our tanks overnight.  90% of the exoskeleton was off and the lobster had only one claw left to pull out of it’s former body (pic below).  More pics and video at 8AM-

Lobster Molting Pictures, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Here is a view from above.  You can see the exoskeleton of it’s tail and walking legs above the soft (jelly roll) lobster below.

Lobster Molting Picture
Lobster Molting Picture
Lobster Molting Pictures from www.goodmorninggloucester.org
Lobster Molting Pictures from http://www.goodmorninggloucester.org

LobsterLady Slide Show

Photo from LobsterLadys Slide Show
Photo from LobsterLady's Slide Show

Click This Text For LobsterLady’s Lobster and Gloucester  Slide Show

Laurel Tarantino’s Lobster Thermidor

After the final elimination race last night The Tarantinos graciously hosted a party for the rowers.  Here is Laurel Tarantino’s (wife of the self proclaimed all time greatest Grand Banks dory rower Jimmy T) Lobster Thermidor.  Video with Laurel at The Shipwreck Lounge at 1PM


Cape Ann Copper Works Lobster

For obvious reasons I really dig the copper lobster made by the Hatch men.

Cape Ann Copper Works Lobster, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Marbled Lobster Landed By Toby Burnham Aboard The Jupiter II

I took this picture juxtaposed against a bunch of regular lobsters so you could see just how different they are.   Toby Burnham on the Jupiter II caught this marbled lobster a couple years ago and landed it at our dock.

To see the ocean oddity slide show which I added some more blue shaded lobster, and quadruple clawed claws to you can click this text

Peter Prypot has a wonderful article today in the Gloucester Daily Times about another one that was caught by John Symonds of Essex.  You can read the article by clicking this text

Here you can see just how wild they look when placed next to a normally colored lobster-

Things To Do- Lobster College

Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff
Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

This sounds like a great take if you are a lobster lover-

From the Boston Globe-

Time to apply for Lobster College


Lobster College sounds like a hungry Mainiac’s dream: all lobster, all the time. Ah, but it’s real, if only for one weekend, Sept. 17-20. In past years, Lobster College has attracted folks from as near as Maine, as far as Illinois, Michigan, Florida, and Australia. Along with retirees and other curious fans of the crustacean, there have been restaurant owners and students of marine science for whom this is a serious hands-on learning experience.
Instructors are University of Maine faculty and lobster fishermen and dealers who serve up generous lessons on lobster biology and ecology, stock management, branding and marketing, and related environmental issues. Students learn to bait traps and go out on a working lobster boat. They hear about lobster products and taste recipes at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Last year they ate at least ten lobster dishes in four days.
The program is run by the Lobster Institute, a coalition of University of Maine faculty and those working in the industry, focused on research and education outreach to protect, conserve and enhance a healthy lobster fishery as a resource, and lobstering as both an industry and a way of life. Lobster College is also a fundraiser for the institute. Sessions takes place in and around Boothbay Harbor, among the prettiest sections along Midcoast Maine’s rocky coast. Participants stay at Kenniston Hill Inn Bed & Breakfast
Enrollment is limited to 20; the deadline is August 31. Tuition is $575 per person, including all lobster meals, plus room rates which range from $450-$570 for the weekend. Details are at www.lobsterinstitute.org
in Boothbay. The charming shipbuilder’s mansion was built in 1786.

Posted by Janet Mendelsohn, Globe Correspondent

The lobster institute has a page on it’s website with my lobster molting video and pictures, you can check it out by clicking this text

Mutant Lobster- Spotted Lobster Landed By Mark Ring Video

Mark Ring Aboard The Stanley Thomas Brought In This Spotted Lobster

Beautiful Industry- Controls Aboard The Stanley Thomas

You don’t suppose these controls have seen their fair share of use do you?

Traps Stacked Up and Ready To Set On The Stanley Thomas

The Mighty Stanley Thomas.  She’s got pretty lines don’t ya think?

Preparing For Lobster Season Aboard The Stanley Thomas

Mark and Matt Ring give the viewers a lesson on how to set up a trawl of lobster pots to set.

Lobstering On The Stanley Thomas

Here’s Mark Ring aboard The Stanley Thomas.  He is setting up the lobster trawls to set.  Lobstering lesson video at 7:00AM with Mark and Matt Ring

Gloucester Zen XXIII Video

Minimal Editing- Minimal Commentary- Just A Slice Of Time On Gloucester Harbor

I’m thinking LobsterLady will love this one.

Albino Lobster

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Albino Lobster, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Albino Lobster

Last summer Toby on the Jupiter II brought in a lobster that was yellow in pigmentation, I’ve never in my 33 years down the dock seen a completely white albino lobster.  I’ve seen half white ones and documented them in photographs, half blue ones and documented them, but never a completely white one.

Look for the video tomorrow morning.

Thanks goes to Paul Movali for pointing out to me.  Paul’s a good egg.

Albino Lobster, originally uploaded by captjoe06.