Lobsters are generally notable for their large claws, which can serve as a deterrent to any predators. But there’s a whole family of spiny lobsters that lack these claws. They tend to ward off ...

Bart Mansi, owner of the Guilford Lobster Pound, has been catching lobsters in the Long Island Sound since he was a teenager in the 1970s, but the days of Connecticut’s booming lobster industry are ...

Greg Mercer is an investigative journalist and author of “The Lobster Trap: The Global Fight for a Seafood on the Brink.” In June 1874, Livingston Stone, a Harvard-educated federal fish commissioner, ...

No matter how you look at them, lobsters are fascinating creatures and essential members of the ocean. They have been prowling the seas for over 480 million years, fighting and eating each other the ...

Several groups have worked together to remove more than 1,000 abandoned lobster traps in Long Island Sound. The Lobster Trap Recovery and Assessment Partnership is a project between The Maritime ...

Gathering for mutual defense puts young spiny lobsters at risk of predators. At each site, the researchers started daily surveys of the lobsters present, registering how large they were and tagging ...