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Infraorder Astacidea // Family Nephropidae // Genus Homarus | ||||
Homarus gammarus (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||
The European lobster is found in the eastern Atlantic from the Lofoten Islands to Portugal and the Mediterranean Sea. It was recorded in many areas of the Black Sea: off the coast of Turkey (Zernov, 1913); off the coast of Bulgaria (Valkanov, 1957); off the coast of the Caucasus and Crimea (Dolgopolskaya, 1949). Inhabits rocky, stony and pebble soils. During the day, he usually leads a hidden lifestyle. In an adult state, it leads a sedentary lifestyle and does not travel long distances (Dolgopolskaya, 1949). At the beginning of the 20th century, in the Black Sea, the lobster was the subject of fishing off the Anatolian coast of the Bosphorus Strait to Kefken Island (Zernov, 1913). According to FAO statistics, the small lobster fishery in the Bosphorus continues to this day. In other areas of the Black Sea, rare lobster finds also continue. In the early 1980s one lobster specimen was caught near Cape Fiolent (Sevastopol) ("Slava Sevastopol" newspaper, 1982). In 2014, the lobster was caught near Novorossiysk at a depth of 90 m (http://kuban24.tv). |
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North East Atlantic | North Sea | Black Sea | ||
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