Food is a primary factor affecting the growth and survival of juvenile western rock lobsters in nursery areas. Determining how far juveniles travel when searching for food is essential in determining the size of area foraged and how much food is potentially available to them. Knowledge of foraging...

Scampi, or species of clawed lobsters of the genus Metanephrops, occur on the continental slopes of many countries in the world, however, prior to 1985 were commercially fished only in deep water off south east Africa, Metanephrops andamanicus and experimentally in the western Atlantic Ocean and...

1 A method was developed to rapidly assess the effectiveness of trap designs and identify the causes of differences in effectiveness. 2 Fish entry and escape probabilities are correlated across trap designs. The probabilities are very high for '0' and 'S' trap designs and are much lower for the 'Z'...