The fellows at Catch a piece of Maine taught me a thing or two about the not so secret life of lobsters via their Lobstermen Blog.
In Warm weather, slow catch, and sunburns they educate us a bit on how "the warm temperatures help heat up the waters of the coastal harbors
and bays. This increase in water temperature is a warm welcome to
millions of lobsters that have been migrating from offshore waters back
into the shallow and protected "molting" grounds. Each year around this
time lobsters will travel into the warmest waters where they will
"shed" and grow into another larger shell. This is the transformation
of a "hard-shell" lobster into a "sheddar" or soft shell lobster".
Still trying to come up with a special Father’s Day Gift Idea, would you Buy Dad a Lobster Trap?
That’s what Catch a Piece of Maine suggests.
The perks: "Trap owners can follow
their traps online and see what their lobsterman is catching. If any of
our trap owners find themselves in Maine, they are welcome to go out on
the boat and haul their own trap!"
All that for slightly more than $2000 I think.
Related: By the Book Guide to Oyster Eating…In North America…A Geography of Oysters