Background

Southwest Nova Scotia generally produces high quality lobster. During the 2003/2004 season, variations in lobster quality (soft-shells and low yield) created an economic challenge. Understanding the factors that control the variation of lobster quality is vital to the sustainability and health of the lobster industry. In order to understand the variation in lobster quality, continuous and annual sampling is required.

Since the summer of 2004, lobster harvesters, buyers, dealers, processors, and scientists are all participating in developing this collaborative research program designed to better document and understand the annual changes in moult-timing and lobster quality in LFAs 33 and 34. Sampling started in June 2008 in LFAs 25 and 26A, and in LFA 24 in August 2009. This site contains a summary of all data collected.

• Data last updated December 07, 2011.
  

Below is a list of updates and publications which outline the results and the goals of the Altantic Lobster Moult and Quality Project

• Pre-Season Quality Predictions ~ NOVEMBER 2011 ~
• Pre-Season Quality Predictions ~ NOVEMBER 2010 ~
• LFAS 33/34 MOULT & QUALITY MONITORING PROJECT ~ Importance of Quality ~ NOVEMBER 2009 UPDATE ~
• LFAS 33/34 MOULT & QUALITY MONITORING PROJECT ~ NOVEMBER 2009 UPDATE ~
• Publication on the Variation in Moult Timing and Market Quality in the American Lobster
• LFAS 33/34 MOULT & QUALITY MONITORING PROJECT ~ NOVEMBER 2008 UPDATE ~
• LFAS 33/34 MOULT & QUALITY MONITORING PROJECT ~ NOVEMBER 2007 UPDATE ~

Contributors

...and the lobster industry