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My name is Curt Brown. I'm a lobsterman and a marine biologist at Ready Seafood up here in Maine.

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Today we're going to talk to you a little bit about an important research project that we're working on

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with both the University of Maine and Red Lobster 

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to improve our understanding of the early life stages of the lobster life cycle. 


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When a lobster hatches from an egg it actually spends the first month of its life

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at the surface of the ocean before settling down to the bottom for the rest of its life.

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These collectors right here were designed as part of this research project

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to provide habitat for those baby lobsters.

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We set these collectors out all up and down the coast of Maine. 

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When we haul them back we find lots of little, baby lobsters. 

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We measure all the baby lobsters we find, then we re-release them.

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That data provides us with very valuable information so that we can get abundance estimates

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so that we know what's coming down the pipeline for the fishery five to eight years in advance. 

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It’s very important to have a sustainable future for our fishery and this is a big part of it right here,

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and we're proud to work with Red Lobster on this important research.

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To learn more, visit Redlobster.com/seafoodwithstandards