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World Prodigy Grounding - Lobster Restoration
World Prodigy Grounding - Lobster Restoration
To compensate for lobster mortalities during the World Prodigy oil spill, construction of a cobble lobster reef was completed in winter 1997; monitoring was initiated in 1997, and the reef was 'seeded' with 2,500 hatchery-reared lobsters in the summers of 1998 and 1999. Researchers report that lobsters, juvenile tautog and black sea bass, and other benthic fauna are colonizing the reef. Lobster density has increased from near zero to 1/m2, significantly higher than the two control areas. The University of Rhode Island (URI) set up its lobster hatchery to 'seed' the reefs with juvenile lobsters over a three-year period beginning in summer 1998. URI has completed 3 years of the lobster-seeding component of the project. Darden Industries/Red Lobster Corporation has provided an additional $30K to expand the hatchery and seeding.
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World Prodigy Grounding-Lobster Restoration
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A diver inspects the reefs to ensure they are created according tospecification.
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Construction of the reef underway.
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A suction sampling technique is used to determine settlement of lobsterson the reefs.
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An adult, American lobster, Homarus americanus rests on the sea floor.
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An American lobster, Homarus americanus at the site where cobble reefswere placed to provide habitat in Dutch Harbor.
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A larval lobster in the water column.
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A drawing of an American lobster.
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An American lobster, Homarus americanus, seen among shell debris on the oceanbottom.
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An all blue specimen of Homarus americanus. Some scientists attributevariations in shell colors to diet.
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A close up of a microwire tag inserted into the ventral tail section of an earlybenthic stage lobster. Tags were used to identify lobsters placed on the reefsas part of the restoration work and associated research.
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A close up of a microwire tag inserted into the ventral tail section of an earlybenthic stage lobster. Tags were used to identify lobsters placed on the reefsas part of the restoration work and associated research.
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Juvenile lobsters were raised by University of Rhode Island researcher, KathyCastro in individual condo units to prevent cannibalism. The cobble reefswere then seeded with the juvenile lobsters to determine if seeding would helpto augment native popu
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Two juvenile lobsters, Homarus americanus, begin to attack one another.
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An all blue juvenile specimen of Homarus americanus retreats after an attack.
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A juvenile American lobster rests in its condo. The baby lobsters were raisedto be placed at the cobble reef sites in Dutch Harbor, RI.
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Two baby American lobsters in a condo lock claws. American lobsters arecannibals and must be separated or they will kill and consume one another.
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A baby lobster is measured before having a microwire tag injected into itscarapace. The microwire tagged lobsters were placed on the cobble reefs andlater collected to determine recruitment and mortality rates.
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One of a series of images that shows the process of how researchers injectmicrowire tags into juvenile lobsters.
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One of a series of images that shows the process of how researchers injectmicrowire tags into juvenile lobsters.
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One of a series of images that shows the process of how researchers injectmicrowire tags into juvenile lobsters.
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