Researchers in England believe they’ve cracked the code of understanding lobster age, a finding they say could someday help lead to a more sustainable fishery.
Unlike fish, which have tiny stones in their ears with rings that can be counted to determine age, or deer, which can be aged by their teeth, there isn’t a decisive way to tell how old a lobster is.
Fishermen often estimate the age of lobsters based on their size.
But Martin Taylor, who is an associate professor in the school of biological sciences at the University of East Anglia and one of the authors of a new study
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