Comments on: The Large Lobster Effect https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:05:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: CherryBombSim https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509326 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:05:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509326 I bet he cod would eat the big ones, though. I’ve heard about lobster being poor people’s food, and I suspect that is because the small ones are not nearly as good to eat.

]]> By: dizzlski https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509325 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:11:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509325 Not for nothin’, but any person who has done time on the sea has a connection to others who have done so. My experience was pretty mild, but being in the middle of nothing but water (or at least perceiving so) has been an experience I will never forget. Believe it or not, it’s like being in space. Bumpy, rolling space maybe, but I’ve never felt more alive than when I couldn’t see land.

]]> By: Richard Chapman https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509324 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:09:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509324 I worked on a lobster boat one summer in the late 60s. It was hard work, similar to haying but a lot wetter. My boss used to say, “just being out here beats the hell out of you”. He was referring to the movement of the boat and the consent self correcting your body does to stay balanced. Then there was the sun. It beats down on you and then up on you when it reflects off the water. I turned very brown that summer.

We didn’t fish in Maine, Long Island Sound was where we caught our lobsters. I don’t think we ever caught a lobster over 3 1/2 lbs. By the way, Long Island Sound was full of pleasure craft and my boss hated those boats stopping by to try to buy lobsters from us. I remember one particularly hideous pink yacht. Those people had no idea what real work was.

When my boss wasn’t catching lobsters he was an English Professor at a C.W. Post College. That gave him an amazing ability; He could swear all day long and not repeat himself.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509323 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:39:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509323 They overlap a lot in habitat. Lobsters range from near shore (where they are rare these days) to the edge of the continental shelf. Cod, pretty much the same.

But I agree that the historical accounts indicate not only super-duper abundant cod but also abundant lobster.

]]> By: Achrachno https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509322 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:33:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509322 CherryB: If cod populations ever come back to anywhere near their natural size, they will eat up most of the lobsters.

I don’t know about that. Historic accounts seem to indicate that formerly both lobsters and cod were abundant in the N Atlantic. I’ve heard that lobster were once poor people’s food because they were plentiful and thus cheap. Ugly may have contributed to price too.

Besides, aren’t lobster mostly inshore, while cod are mostly well out at sea? How much do they even overlap in habitat?

]]> By: CherryBombSim https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509321 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:03:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509321 The lobster industry is well-managed, but in one way, it owes its very existence to reckless exploitation. If cod populations ever come back to anywhere near their natural size, they will eat up most of the lobsters.

]]> By: Achrachno https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509320 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:10:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509320 Rhode Island is very small state, but they have some very large lobsters and in any size they’re just as tasty as the Maine sort. So there!

They seem to manage them quite carefully too. Though, I read that warming sea water seems to be creating problems.

]]> By: Marina https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509319 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:45:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509319 Newfoundland doesn’t have maximum size restrictions, just restrictions on egg-bearing lobsters and number of traps.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509318 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:49:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509318 That paragraph in which I wanted to be clear is my worst nightmare.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509317 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:24:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/10/27/the-large-lobster-effect/#comment-509317 Wow, Razlo’s “activism” consists of wandering around to various blogs to leave insulting comments. His blog exists to contain one post about a blogger. In this, he is like almost all other MRAs I’ve seen. Men’s Rights Slactivists would be a much more apt name.

The people who are actually doing something about equal rights for men tend to be feminists, not people who post out of context or made up quotes designed only to tell the world that feminists are bad.

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