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Originally Posted by Jim Day
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Add to that that big male lobsters are territorial and cannibalistic. That they literally hunt and kill other lobsters and even will feed on smaller females with eggs and you suddenly realize not only that killing big bull male lobsters and making way for more smaller lobsters may not be such a bad idea, but also it in no way effects the resource and population numbers in the same manner as killing large females.
...Jim
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Back in the day, I was fortunate enoug to have the opportunity to dive Alpha area, off on San Nic. The area was full of big big lobster. And much more often than not, they were big bulls, we simply didn't see small lobster in that area; That simply attests to their territoriality.
12-02-2011, 10:52 AM
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