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Hatchery lobsters innately develop many behaviours which help them survive in the wild, even in captive rearing environments which lack the complexity of natural seabeds.
Hatchery lobsters innately develop many behaviours which help them survive in the wild, even in captive rearing environments which lack the complexity of natural seabeds.
Since the 1980s, the tagging of released juvenile lobsters has established proof that hatchery-reared individuals can survive in the wild, recruit to the mature breeding stock, and contribute to fisheries landings.