LobstaMan
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Believe it or not, I've never seen one(my good luck!). Curious to see what one looks like and which flipper is supposed to be v-notched. Thanks.
LobstaMan
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Picture/photo of V-Notched Female Lobster
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LobstaMan
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Here's my attempt at an attached file.
Chebby
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Just get a whole bunch of them and ask a friendly EP officer to help sort them out! 
Heres one:
http://www.fishresearch.org/Articles/2002/11/IMG_6113.jpg
Ive been seeing a lot of them lately (saw 5 on two of my last dives) I think its a good sign (means lobstermen are doing what they are supposed to).
On a related note, does anybody know if the V-notch has a minimum size? Flipper grows back you know. I once got a great just under 5 lobster only to find on shore that it had a barely visible v-notch so I immediately threw it back. Now Im thinking maybe I should have renotched her.
Heres one:
http://www.fishresearch.org/Articles/2002/11/IMG_6113.jpg
Ive been seeing a lot of them lately (saw 5 on two of my last dives) I think its a good sign (means lobstermen are doing what they are supposed to).
On a related note, does anybody know if the V-notch has a minimum size? Flipper grows back you know. I once got a great just under 5 lobster only to find on shore that it had a barely visible v-notch so I immediately threw it back. Now Im thinking maybe I should have renotched her.
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LobstaMan
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Hey, it worked, but if anybody has any better pictures/diagrams/photos, feel free. First, I tried to attach a picture I located on Google, but apparently it was too large for SB. The diagram does answer my question of which flipper(if that's the correct ananotomical term).
LobstaMan(still learning about lobsters....)
LobstaMan(still learning about lobsters....)
Chebby
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LobstaMan:
That looks like a big angry fly in a mini skirt....must be my supersmall screen resolution
MSilvia
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If it has a visible notch at all, throw it back. You did the right thing Chebby.
I work at NMFS and one of my dive buddies from at the lab works on the Rhode Island lobster restoration project. Part of what he does is work with the fisherman on the v-notching in RI waters (NMFS and the State of RI work together on this project). Since the fisherman are paid for every lobster they notch, NMFS collects the individual notch tabs from the fisherman as receipts. Believe it or not they actually store all of the notches in a freezer here at the lab for record purposes. In case anyone ever audits the program the notch archives prove how many lobsters were actually v-notched.
MSilvia
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How can they tell which endopodite was notched? In other words, if a fisherman is getting paid for every notch taken from the tail flipper immediately to the right of center, what's to stop him from clipping the left too and collecting double?
SueMermaid
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Forgive me for asking, but why do they notch them?
RIDIVER501
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so even if they aren't carrying eggs you can tell they are female and leave them alone so they can keep filling our dinner plates with their offspringSueMermaid:
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