the female to be kept or sold, and is commonly referred to as a "v-notch". This notch remains for three molts of the lobster exoskeleton, providing harvest protection and continued breeding availability for 3-5 years.

Aquaculture systems for H. gammarus are under development, and production rates are still very low.

Taxonomic history

Homarus gammarus was first given a binomial name by Carl Linnaeus

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