Monitoring of lobster blood protein levels, shell hardness and moult stage has now been ongoing since the summer 2004 with pre-season, during and post-season sampling. The monitoring currently includes 15 areas in LFAs 33/34 with more than 81,500 lobsters sampled to date. The information collected for this project is available on the Internet and allows people to look at lobster sex, size, blood protein, moult stage and shell hardness by sampling location or dates.

For more information see LFAs 33/34 Moult & Quality Monitoring Project ~November 2009 Update~(pdf)