Distribution and capture

• Main Authors: P. A. Prodöhl, K. E. Jørstad, A. Triantafyllidis, V. Katsares, C. Triantaphyllidis, Northern Ireland
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Lofoten; Norway; European lobster; Homarus gammarus; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.575.6983; http://www.imr.no/genimpact/__data/page/7650/european_lobster.pdf

Th e European lobster, Homarus gammarus, has a broad geographical distribution (Fig.1). In its northern range, it occurs from the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway to south-eastern Sweden and Denmark, but is absent in the Baltic Sea probably due to lowered salinity and temperature extremes. Its distribution southwards extends along the mainland European coast around Britain and Ireland, to a southern limit of about 30 ˚ north latitude on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Th e species also extends, though less abundantly, throughout the coastal and island areas of the Mediterranean Sea and has been reported from the westernmost end of the Black Sea in the Straits of Bosporus (1, 2).