Long-term trends in juvenile American lobster populations across nine lobster fishing areas in Nova Scotia, Canada
Sitang Arkanit, Henrik Stryhn, K Fraser Clark, Shannon Scott-Tibbetts, Krishna K Thakur · 2025
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Description
Sitang Arkanit and four co-authors present a 2025 study of young American lobsters in Nova Scotia, Canada. They used data from research traps that do not rely on the fishing fleet. The traps were set in season in nine fishing areas between 2003 and 2023, a span of twenty years.
The team tracked shell length and the share of young lobsters, while weighing depth, month, and sex. Trends split by area. Counts of young lobsters fell along the northeast coast of Cape Breton and in one rich area on the South Shore. Other areas held up better, and the southwest stayed fairly stable. The split shows why local rules need local data.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sitang Arkanit, Henrik Stryhn, K Fraser Clark, Shannon Scott-Tibbetts, Krishna K Thakur |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |