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Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every baseball fan recognizes the magical numbers 56, 61 and 715. Basketball fans are enamored with 23 and 100. Pele\u2019s number 10 jerseys still fetch thousands at auctions. Most Americans alive today react to 9\/11 and SciFi connoisseurs have been raised on 1984 and 2001. But what about lobster scientists?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Soon 18, 117 and 217 will be etched in our brains. Next time you sit down to eat a lobster you won\u2019t be able to avoid thinking about Ehud Spanier eating 18 different species of lobsters in his career. When you pull up your next trap and joke that it must be so heavy because it is full of lobsters, think of Sara Ellis sorting through 117 of them from one ventless trap. Think that jumbo American lobster in the local aquarium is big? Try pulling up a 217 mm CL male while SCUBA diving (I think it was actually larger than Peter Lawton). How can you possibly forget these milestones? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you worried you will? Me too. So, I have created a repository for these interesting facts and figures: The Lobster Book of World Records (actually, this website). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have a record that you think I should add, feel free to contact me. All records you submit should have some type of validation (testimony from dive buddy, reference, Xerox of page from data book, etc.). We welcome pictures of records as well as record holders, to enhance the website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Below is just a small sampling of the records we have and the types of records we seek. As an indication of how easy it is for you to get into the record book, even Stan Cobb (yes THAT Stan Cobb) managed to sneak into the Book with the following record: most lobster legs eaten by rats, 150.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eating<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most lobsters eaten at one sitting: 10. Ehud Spanier. 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Honorable Mention:7, Grabowski<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most lobster species eaten: 18, Ehud Spanier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobsters as animals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Smallest egger captured: 52 mm CL, Carl Wilson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022\u00a0Longest distance traveled by a lobster: 800 kms, A. Campbell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Longest time between tag and recapture: 9 years, Jay Krouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most species in one paper: 22 Ehud Spanier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Worst conditions experienced while writing a paper: Peter Lawton, laundry room of ship\u00a0while writing chapter for Biology of Lobsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Longest time between first data point and last data point collected, but not during a time-series project: 11 years*, Jan Factor (*Data must be published).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catch\/Collecting\/Experiments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most lobsters captured in a single trap: 117, Sara Ellis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most phylogenetically distinct species captured in one attempt: 1 human and one spiny.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mark Butler. 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most PLs captured in 15 minute tow: 198, Stan Cobb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most postlarval spiny lobsters caught in 60 minutes: 67 (P. argus pueruli<\/em>) (Jason Goldstein and Peter Bouwma).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Great number\/biomass in single transect: 170 large females, Peter Lawton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most animals handled while sea sampling in 1 day: 2000, David Robicheau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Longest single research dive: 3 hours, Tom Langley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most lobsters in a trawl: 3,982 or 194\/min, Carl Wilson, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most recaptures of one animal: 7, Carl Wilson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most collecting dives in a year: 210, Cindy Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most lobsters captured in a single attempt: 7, Don Behringer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Largest lobster captured diving: 217 male, 207 berried female, Peter Lawton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Largest spiny lobster captured diving:180 mm, Cindy Lewis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most southern\u00a0H. americanus<\/em>\u00a0captured\/documented (Miami Beach, 252 meters, Stephen V. Cofer-Shabica and Richard Nielson, Bull Mar. Sci. 43: 315-317, 1988).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Deepest documented settlement of\u00a0H. americanus<\/em>\u00a0(85 m, Rick Wahle, 2007).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Furthest north settlement of\u00a0H. americanus<\/em>\u00a0(Newfoundland, Rick Wahle)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Longest time spent videotaping a dead lobster (48 hour time lapse, Steve Jury, 1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catch\/collecting commercial division<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Most lobsters held in one facility at one time (250,000; Shafmaster, NH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Furthest shipment of lobsters for scientific purposes:\u00a0USA to Japan (via Florida Keys –> Miami, Florida –> Memphis, Tennessee –> Anchorage, Alaska –> Osaka, Japan, Mie, Japan)\u00a0\u00a027 hours (Jason Goldstein, Mark Butler, and Hirokazu Matsuda).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Career Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Longest to complete Masters Degree: 10 years (Somers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Bawdiest song, sung at a conference: Peter Lawton-2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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