How the Whitby Lobster Hatchery scheme is preserving the species
Joe is spearheading a scheme which was originally the brainchild of the local fishing community – the Whitby Lobster Hatchery
A minute baby lobster, straight from the egg, has just a 0.005 per cent chance of surviving to full grown – that means just one in every 20,000 makes it. He’s spearheading a scheme which was originally the brainchild of the local fishing community – the Whitby Lobster Hatchery. Based in a part of the Whitby Fish Market, on the harbourside Pier Road, the hatchery is a charity, which has been funded by donations from grants and donations from local business and individuals. It will include a visitor centre which is a Community Interest Company – a limited company which benefits the community rather than private shareholders.
And there they grow safely until they’ve moved on from being free-floating larvae to becoming bottom dwelling, or benthic, juvenile lobsters. By the time they’re eight to 12 weeks old, they’re much more capable of fending for themselves and stand a way better chance of survival out at sea – so they’re released, usually between late spring and late autumn. It’s believed that up to 30 per cent of baby lobsters raised this way will survive into adulthood – a huge increase on that 0.005 per cent.
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