{"id":1212,"date":"2009-04-12T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T10:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2009-04-12T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T10:50:09","slug":"the_secret_life_of_lobsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Life of Lobsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I had to choose to be a female animal, I might want to be a female lobster. Why? Simple – because the male lobster, it turns out, is a most tender and passionate lover. Hey, any female could do with a tender lover or two. Well, make that as many as possible. :p
\nIn The Secret Life of Lobsters<\/a><\/i><\/strong>, Trevor Corson brings readers on a journey to show how fishermen and scientists unravel the mysteries behind how lobsters procreate and to understand their population cycles in the wild of North America.
\nMale lobsters, as I’ve read, have double genitalia which are, erm, always hard. Any male readers out there envious already? Lobsters mate when the female sheds her shell. When a lobster sheds its shell, it is at its most vulnerable state as it has no protection and there is every danger of being attacked and cannibalised by other lobsters lurking around. But when a male lobster senses that a molted female is ready to mate, he very gently hovers and toes around her, flips her over with the utmost care and then does the deed without injuring her fragile form. And hey, did you know that female lobsters seduced males into submission by urinating into their faces? OK, something definitely not to be tried in the homosapien context.
\nBy focusing on the small lobstering community in Little Cranberry Island, which is one of the 300 Maine islands, readers are accorded an intimate portrayal of this group of people and how scientific developments and discoveries, sustainable practices and government legislations have affected the livelihoods of these people. This microcosm in turn provides a more in-depth understanding of the lobstering trade and industry as a whole in the United States.
\nDelve into the dangers of lobstering, the habitats lobsters inhabit and how weather conditions affect the catchment yield. Learn also how the lobstermen ensure the lobster population is not wiped out by the employment of sustainable methods of fishing. Lobstermen do this by cutting a V-notch in the tails of egg-bearing females to mark them as protected breeders. Large dominant males are also thrown back into the sea when caught so that they can mate with these protected breeders.
\nCorson manages to explain scientific fact in a reader-friendly style and engages the laymen in his quest to uncover the ins and outs of lobstering as well as the secrets behind the lobster’s anatomy and how its different body parts help it to survive, move, hunt and procreate.
\nIt’s a thoroughly engaging book and one I’d recommend for a better understanding of this crustacean that we occasionally find on our dinner plate. The Appendix also teaches you how to cook a lobster and you can find out whether a lobster feels pain when thrust into boiling water. I’m not sure if this book is available in the National Library (so far I haven’t come across it on the shelves of the branches I frequent) as the copy I read was very generously loaned to me by David from The Importance of Salt<\/a>. Thanks!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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