ADOPT A LOBSTER

I’m not into commercial holidays but I found a way to offer a token that also helps our sealife. If your struggling for a gift how about adopting a lobster for someone. You can name it, track it’s growth and release into the wild.

The National Lobster Hatchery is a marine conservation, research and education charity based in Cornwall, UK. Due to lobsters high worth (they are they most valuable fish in the Uk) they are subject to considerable fishing pressure and are vulnerable to a collapse. Fisheries from all over the world are being over explored with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations stating that “over 75% of the world’s major fisheries are either: fully exploited, over-exploited, depleted or recovering.”

By sponsoring a lobsters growth and release into the wild we can do our bit to help keep the lobster population in balance.

Find more details here

https://www.nationallobsterhatchery.co.uk/journey-of-a-hatchery-reared-lobster/

What happens when you sponsor a lobster ?

Taken from their site :

Where your sponsorship money goes?

Your donation will pay towards the costs of raising and releasing a baby lobster from egg (they come in on the underside of a wild female lobster and live in our maternity ward until they hatch naturally), until they are released back into the wild from 3 months old. There are many costs associated with the cost of a single lobster, from staff, equipment and feed costs, to electricity and water to power the complex filtration systems, pumps and holding tanks, to the ongoing research that is vital in improving hatchery technological and husbandry techniques.

Congratulations on adopting your very own lobster! Or if it’s all new to you and you received a surprise Adoption Certificate in the post, then you can find out all about it by reading: the ‘About’ page which gives an overview of the charity, the ‘Adopt a Lobster’ page that tells you about the scheme and ‘The journey of a hatchery reared lobster’.

You are in the right place to find out where and when your lobster was released!