"It's massively, massively important," said Parkin, who is involved in the project. The idea came from the Whitby fishing community, drawing inspiration from a similar project in Cornwall, southwest England. Individual donors can sponsor a lobster and follow it until it is introduced into the sea. The project raised more than £100,000 ($120,000) to get off the ground, from crowdfunding and corporate sponsorship. "Obviously when we release them, they won't all survive, but what we've done is protect them over the larval stage, which is their most vulnerable period," Redfern said. "The guys that didn't want to move, they had to migrate into shellfish," said Jonathan Parkin, a 43-year-old Whitby fisherman.ĭeck hand Ben Hinchley cleans lobster pots before heading out to sea off Whitby.īy allowing them to grow in a protected environment, Redfern hopes to increase that to 20 or 30 percent.Īs they are fed and develop in their hatchery tanks, the larvae are separated when they reach the stage when, in the wild, they are likely to eat each other.Īfter two to three months, they are ready for the sea. Some of the Whitby boats moved with them, relocating to the Scottish ports of Peterhead and Aberdeen. By Laurie Schreiber The Bar Harbor Oceanarium, an educational. White fish such as cod and haddock have migrated to colder waters north. The Bar Harbor Oceanarium, an educational aquarium with a lobster hatchery on 20 acres, is up for sale at a price of 825,000.
In the 1990s, there were about 30 big fishing boats in Whitby but by 2005, "there was only one", according to Redfern, who has been a fisherman himself. Fishermen also blame European Union quotas, before Britain quit the bloc. The town's mainstay catch of white fish has collapsed, a result of overfishing and climate change. Lobster pots are piled high on the quays of the port, but the crustaceans were once part of a much bigger fishing industry in Whitby. "We want to make sure that the marine environment is protected and the lobster populations are conserved for the future," the 31-year-old biology graduate told AFP. Joe Redfern, who runs the Whitby Lobster Hatchery, hopes eventually to release the same number each year from his tanks. Some 100,000 lobsters are landed each year, providing jobs for 150 people. Whitby, whose dramatic abbey ruins were an inspiration for "Dracula" author Bram Stoker, is Europe's third-largest lobster port. In a few weeks' time, as part of a conservation project, they will leave their small shed in the northeastern English port of Whitby for the open sea.
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