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  2. Lobster - Wikipedia

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    Lobsters are caught using baited one-way traps with a color-coded marker buoy to mark cages. Lobster is fished in water between 2 and 900 metres (1 and 500 fathoms), although some lobsters live at 3,700 metres (2,000 fathoms). Cages are of plastic-coated galvanized steel or wood. A lobster fisher may tend to as many as 2,000 traps.

  3. Pregnancy in fish - Wikipedia

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    All of these varieties exhibit signs of their pregnancy before the live fry are born. As examples, the female swordtail and guppy will both give birth to anywhere from 20 to 100 live young after a gestation period of four to six weeks, and mollies will produce a brood of 20 to 60 live young after a gestation of six to 10 weeks. [10]

  4. American lobster - Wikipedia

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    Soft-shells (lobsters that have only recently molted) do not survive more than a few hours out of water. Lobsters are usually cooked alive, [57] which may be illegal in certain areas [58] and which some people consider inhumane. [59] [60] Lobster 'tail' (actually the abdomen) is sometimes served with beef as surf and turf. [61]

  5. Baby Lobsters Being Released Into the Wild Look Like the ...

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    Baby lobsters can molt several times a month at the beginning of their lives as they grow so fast. With each molt they can get as much as one-tenth longer and fifty percent heavier. Hatchery ...

  6. Male pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Pregnant male seahorse. Male pregnancy is the incubation of one or more embryos or fetuses by organisms of the male sex in some species. Most species that reproduce by sexual reproduction are heterogamous—females producing larger gametes and males producing smaller gametes ().

  7. 10 animal mothers that make the ultimate sacrifice - AOL

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    Here are 10 animal mothers that die after giving birth. For some species bringing new life into the world also serves as a final act. Here are 10 animal mothers that die after giving birth.

  8. Crustacean larva - Wikipedia

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    William Elford Leach erected the genus Megalopa in 1813 for a post-larval crab; a copepod post-larva is called a copepodite; a barnacle post-larva is called a cypris; a shrimp post-larva is called a parva; a hermit crab post-larva is called a glaucothoe; a spiny lobster / furry lobsters post-larva is called a puerulus and a slipper lobster post ...

  9. Legal sizes for lobsters could change to protect population - AOL

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    The changes would arrive at a time when the lobster industry is experiencing record highs in both catch and value, and consumers are paying more for lobsters — already a premium product — than ...