Fishermen are feeding young lobsters in Maine, turning the wild lobster fishery into something less that fully wild. The way this works is that lobsters enter traps, eat the bait, and then leave (studies show that 90% of lobsters escape after entering traps). Scientists have found that lobsters get enough food from lobster traps to enhance their growth rate. Sounds like a cross between fishing and farming to me, something like a lobster feedlot. Lobstermen know about this, and don't try to hide it.
"A lot of lobstermen feel that traps are really feeding stations," says Cobb. New England's lobster fishery is in good health - perhaps, says Cobb, because of all the bait that fishermen put out.
Maine lobsters are great, I can vouch for that. I wonder, does anyone advertise Maine lobsters as farmed?
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