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The American lobster is found on the east coast of North America, from Newfoundland to North Carolina. In 1989, Maine led the U.S. in landings with 24 million pounds. Besides the normal colored lobsters, there are also rare blue, yellow, red, and white ones. Except for the white ones, they all turn red when cooked. Lobsters grow by molting. They molt, or shed their shells, about 25 times in the first 5 years of life. No one has yet found a way to determine the exact age of a lobster because it sheds its shell so often. Lobsters "smell" their food by using four small antennae on the front of their heads and tiny sensing hairs that cover their bodies.
Lobster blood is usually a gray or slightly blue color, but it can sometimes be orange, green, or light pink. A lobster egg is the size of the head of a pin. A 1-pound female lobster usually has between 8,000 to 12,000 eggs, which are attached to the underside of her tail. She carries the eggs for about a year until they are released as larvae. Only about 1/10 of one percent of those eggs will live past 6 weeks. It takes 4 to 7 years for a lobster to grow to legal size.
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