Trevor Corson

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Gastropod · What the Shell? Cracking the Lobster's Mysteries · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

Developed real cachet.

For a long time the lobster fishery was pretty steady.

The amount of lobsters that fishermen caught in Maine stayed pretty constant, even as more fishermen entered the fishery and even as more traps were added.

And that was kind of a scientific puzzle for a while.

But then something weird happened.

But it really started to to accelerate in the two thousands.

And so now, you know, since about twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen.

We've been seeing landings that are about sixfold higher than they were back in the nineteen eighties.

Lobsters in Maine are are obviously a big deal.

They're iconic for the state, but they're also really a big deal on a national scale in that they are currently the most valuable single fishery in the nation.

There could be effects of climate change happening.

There's some been some disease issues.

So th th there's so many complex factors.

Nothing is static and it's very unclear exactly how things are gonna go.

There are many enough that I could write a whole book about them, but one of the really surprising ones is the lobster's eye, which you wouldn't really expect because they live kinda in the dark on the bottom of the ocean.

Their eyes are almost completely unique among all creature eyes, you know, on Earth.

Only uh shrimps and prawns also have this.

But every other eye of every other creature basically has a lens.

However, lobsters have a completely different kind of eye.

Instead of a lens, they have what I would describe.

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