In 2000 we purchased a lobster tank. Lobster is probably the most expensive shellfish partly due to the difficulty in catching them in individual parts close to rocky conditions. Lobsters are a beautiful sapphire blue colour until cooked when they become an orange/red. Many people believe that lobsters are always this colour! Lobsters once grown out of the juvenile stage have few if any predators apart from man. One lobster taken of the coast of Virginia in the 1930's weighed 44lbs. However they are very susceptible when moulting (shedding their shell of protection). We have lobster available when the price becomes more reasonable around July and August.
