After a week of checking our field site, our first batch of lobsters is no where to be found! Although none of our experimental lobsters were located, we did have three resident lobsters stay on the site for the entire week. We tracked each resident lobster by a unique color combination of antennae tags. We also determined the sex and carapace length of each resident lobster.
Today
we released our second batch of lobsters at a new site. Our second site contains no artificial shelters unlike our first site (which contained artificial shelters). We will continue to monitor our first site along with our second site. It is important to continue checking our first site in case our experimental lobsters return. This will help us determine whether we should check sites for more than one week after an experimental release.
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