Tame Lobsters

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

211

Date Released

1977

Length of issue (in feet)

520

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Hydraulic Bumper
2. 2Electric Rain
3. 3Portable Plumber
4. 4Tame Lobsters

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Lobsters are being seriously over-fished. Though a female lobster lays her eggs by the thousand, her progeny are prey for numerous predators. The lobsters don’t help their cause either. Males have fierce territorial instincts and will claw invading lobsters to death. But a British team have devised a system of farming lobsters - of keeping them in isolation but healthy. They grow to market size in half the time.

Keywords

Agriculture; Science and technology; Fisheries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/211

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Maurice Tarling

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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