Acheson, James 9, 99
Acton, Eliza 112, 112, 113
age determination 37, 61, 166–7, 176
Aiello, Danny 114
Alexander the Great 115
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 153–4, 155
Allen, Woody 124, 124
American Lobster, The: A Study of Its Habits and Developments 46, 172, 178
American Museum of Natural History 61
Andrew, Saint 50–51
Angel Craved Lobster, The 120–21
Annie Hall 124, 124
Anson, Lord George 66
anthropomorphism 37, 122, 137, 142, 147–8, 153–5, 155, 175
aphrodisiac 115–7, 149, 175, 179
Apicius 108–9
aquaculture 98, 168–9, 179
archaeological/anthropological finds 55, 55–7, 57, 58
Aristotle 16, 58, 179
Aubriet, Claude 52
Australia 60, 160, 161
eating lobsters 57–8, 169–70
lobster fishery 15–16, 39, 80, 87, 102, 146, 169, 169, 170, 171, 179
B–52s, The 159
bait, for catching lobster see diet
bait, lobster used as 55, 57, 64, 68, 92, 95, 106, 160, 179
Banks, Sir Joseph 67, 68, 178
Baudin, Nicolas 57–8
Beals, Jennifer 117
Beckett, Samuel 156–7
Bell Pettigrew Museum of Natural History 54, 54
Beltz, Barbara 44
Bidpai 132
Billingsgate Market 70–71, 172
Bishop, W. H. 82, 94, 95
Blakey, Robert 59, 60, 108
boats, for fishing and/or transporting lobsters 12–13, 41, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 69–71, 71, 74–5, 76–7, 77, 80, 81, 84–7, 85, 86, 92, 92–3, 99, 101, 101, 135, 138, 138, 139, 141, 144, 147, 167, 169, 172
Boeck, Axel 69–70
Bolland, Baron 125
‘Boy Pu-nia and the King of the Sharks, The’ 128–32, 129, 134, 138, 148, 150, 158, 158
see also Punia
Bradford, William 105–6
Brazil 160
lobster fishery 16, 86, 87, 99, 102
Brown, George Mackay 135–7, 175, 177, 178
Butler, Herbert E. 141, 143
Byatt, A. S. 156–8
Byron, Lord 117
Canada 13, 24, 31, 62, 64–5, 100, 105, 160, 161, 172–3
eating lobster in 104–5
lobster fishery in 8–9, 82, 87, 88–101, 91, 105, 171
Cancer, lobster as astronomical sign 51
canning/canneries 92–5, 93, 94, 96, 100, 107, 107, 110, 112, 113, 139, 178
‘Captain, The’ 145, 146
Caribbean lobster fishery 16, 90, 101, 102
Carpenter, William 147
Carroll, Lewis 153–4, 155
Carson, Rachel 128
Chan, Tin-Yam 167, 179
Charlemagne 58
Charles V, King 109
Cheape, Malcolm 23
Child, Julia 125
China 16, 90, 167, 172
‘Chinese Lobster, The’ 157–8
Cicero 59
claws, and lobster defence 19, 25–6, 28, 29, 33–7, 36, 56, 61, 65, 95, 115, 122, 138, 156, 158, 167
Cobb, Stanley 19
Colum, Padraic 131
Conkling, Philip 98
conservation
concern about lobster stocks 72, 86–7, 89–91, 95–102, 113, 171
measures to reduce fishing pressure 9, 45, 70, 82–3, 87, 87–8, 95–100, 102, 142, 145, 160, 171
‘Consider the Lobster’ 124, 127
Cook, Captain James 67, 68
coral see eggs
Corson, Trevor 29, 45, 147
Coull, James 71
Country of the Pointed Firs, The 139–40
Cowan, Diane 32
creel see trap
Crustastun 174, 174
Dalí, Salvador 149, 150–53, 151, 152, 179
‘Dante and the Lobster’ 156–7
Dávalos, Felipe 132, 158
Day, Doris 143
Day, Holman F. 97
De Bry, Theodor 56
Defoe, Daniel 65
DeGeneres, Ellen 177
Deir el-Bahri 58, 178
Dewhurst, Nadia 90
Dickens, Catherine 112
Dickens, Charles 110–12
diet and bait 28, 35, 39, 43–4, 62–4, 75, 82–4, 85
Dirt Music 146
diseases in lobsters 89, 171, 178
Dumas, Alexandre 101, 103
Dürer, Albrecht 137
Easter Island 21, 67
Eddis, William 30–31
eggs, of lobster 12, 24, 28, 32, 41, 45, 46–8, 54, 87–8, 97–9, 109, 112, 148, 168
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 22
England 70–71, 101, 109, 134
lobster fishery 77, 81, 139, 140, 140–42, 141
Erenberg, Lewis 117
evolution of lobster species 31–2, 48, 54–5, 164, 178
fables, lobsters in 42, 132, 153
Factor, Jan 172
Fairfax, Thomas 107–8
fertilizer, lobster as 92, 95, 106, 160
Festinger, Rob 147
Field, Todd 147
Fisher, Andrew 117
Florida Keys National Marine
Sanctuary 160
Food and Agriculture Organization,
United Nations (FAO) 10–11, 17
France 92, 123, 125, 153, 155
lobster fishery 81, 171
Fraser, Juliette May 129
Frazier, Nancy 153
free-diving 76, 77–80, 128–31, 129, 148–9, 158, 161–2, 162
Freud, Sigmund 150, 153
Gatty Marine Laboratory 52–3, 72–4
Gay, John 116
Geller, Jonathan 22, 25–31, 33–49
gender differences 24–5, 34, 40, 45
Gesner, Conrad 59
Gibbons, Euell 77–8
Gilbert, Elizabeth 146–8
‘Good-by Lobster’ 97
Glasse, Hannah 109–10
Golding, William 156
Greco-Roman use of lobster 58–9, 108–9, 115, 123, 170
Greenlaw, Linda 139, 144–6, 145, 179
Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve 160
Haeckel, Ernst 48
Hanks, Tom 117, 120
Hannah, Daryl 117, 120
Harbor Lights 146
Hawaii 26, 31, 128–31, 129, 148–9, 158, 158, 170
lobster fishery 77–8, 81
Hayden, Anne 98
Heath, William 154
Herrick, Francis Hobart 36, 36–7, 39, 43, 44, 46, 46–7, 61, 72–4, 97, 147, 164, 169, 172, 178
Hersey, John 145
Heyerdahl, Thor 67
Higginson, Francis 60–61
Hiroshige, Ando 14
Hoag, George 108
Hogarth, William 72
Holland 69, 69–70, 80, 92, 178
Holthuis, L. B. 10–11, 17, 18, 21, 167
hoop net 76, 80
Howell, John 65
hyperbaric process 173
India 160
lobster fishery 81, 86, 168
Indonesian lobster fishery 79, 90, 169
Ipcar, Dahlov (see also Lobsterman) 121
Irish lobster fishery 77, 81
It Happened to Jane 143
In the Bedroom 147
James, Greg 169
Japan 16, 106, 167, 170, 172
lobster fishery 14, 21, 81, 90, 106
Jewett, Sarah Orne 139–40, 142, 146
Jonston, John 14
Josselyn, John 60
Juan Fernández Islands 65–7
Jump, Shirley 120–21
Jung, Carl 149–50
Keaton, Diane 124, 124
Kent, Rockwell 143
Kingsley, Charles 133, 134, 148, 150
Koons, Jeff 150, 151, 151–3, 176
Kuna Indians 78–80
Kuniyoshi, Utagawa 164
large individual lobsters 30, 58, 59, 59–62, 60, 63, 64–7, 75, 161–7, 170, 176, 179
laws, against serving too much lobster 105–6
Leach, William Elford 53
Lecasble, Guillaume 153
Lescarbot, Marc 64
Lewand, Kevin 162–3
Lewis, George H. 160
Lewis, W. K. and family 93, 96
Liascos, Henry 170
Lincoln, Mrs D. A. 112
Lipfert, Nathan R. 92–3
‘Lobster’ (Brown) 135–7, 175, 177, 178
Lobster (Lecasble) 153
Lobster (Koons) 151, 151–2
‘Lobster’ (Sexton) 135, 137
Lobster Chronicles, The 139, 144–6, 179
Lobster Conservancy, The 32
‘Lobster and Her Daughter, The’ 42
lobster definition 16–18, 25, 167, 179
derivation of word, scientific names 17, 42
other meanings 92, 117, 119, 154
lobster dishes 103, 105, 107, 109–13, 111, 112, 113, 120–23, 123, 161, 170
lobster festivals 103–5, 104, 105, 106, 108, 115, 124, 127, 161
Lobster Institute, The 90–91
lobster krill 16
Lobsterman 121, 142
lobsterman, as hero 128–31, 129, 138, 138–44, 141, 143, 146–8, 150, 169, 169–70
Lobstermen: Jeopardy at Sea 145
lobster palace 117, 176, 179
Lobster Rush, The 93–7, 140, 178
lobster species (common names)
African spear lobster 21
Andaman lobster 18
American lobster 8, 8, 10–11, 15, 20, 24, 28, 29, 31, 31–8, 36, 41, 43, 45, 46, 41–8, 60–62, 63, 72, 82, 83, 90–101, 91, 93, 94, 96, 100, 104, 105, 107, 111, 119, 121, 124, 135, 145, 163, 170, 172–3, 173, 176, 178
Arabian whip lobster 21
Banded spiny lobster 18
Blunt slipper lobster 170
California spiny lobster 16, 24, 30, 161–3, 162, 166–7
Cape rock lobster 57, 89
Caribbean furry lobster see P. gundlachi
Caribbean spiny lobster 10–11, 16, 27, 28–30, 78, 86, 90, 101, 161
Common (European) spiny lobster 16, 48, 53, 53, 123
European lobster 110–11, 15, 23, 31–2, 38, 47–8, 52, 53, 54, 54, 58, 60, 69, 72, 72, 89, 95, 117, 123, 133, 135, 137, 139, 140, 141, 154, 155, 172, 175, 178
Galápagos slipper lobster 80
Green rock lobster 60
Green spiny lobster see P. gracilis
Hawaiian reef lobster see E. occidentalis
Indo-Pacific furry lobster 18
Japanese mud lobster 18
Japanese spiny lobster 14, 21, 89
Juan Fernández spiny lobster 65–7, 90
Moreton Bay bug (Shovel-nosed lobster/Flathead lobster) 16, 86
Musical furry lobster 21
Natal spiny lobster 86
Norway lobster (Dublin Bay prawn, scampi) 10–11, 16, 54, 171, 172
Ornate spiny lobster 32
Pacific pincer lobster see T. japonicus
Painted spiny lobster 33, 34, 79
Polychelid lobster 18
Pronghorn spiny lobster see P. penicillatus
purple (or red) lobster
(Enoplometopus sp.) 168, 169
Red slipper lobster 18
Royal slipper lobster 26
Small European locust lobster 40
Smoothtail spiny lobster see P. laevicauda
Southern rock lobster 10–11
Southern spiny lobster see P. gilchristi
St Paul spiny lobster 90
Western rock lobster 10–11, 15, 48, 146, 171, 179
lobster species (scientific name)
Arctides regalis 26
Callianassa japonica 18
Dinochelus ausubeli 166
Enoplometopus occidentalis 168, 169
Homarus americanus 8, 8, 10–11, 15, 20, 24, 28, 29, 31, 31–8, 36, 41, 43, 45, 46, 41–8, 60–62, 63, 72, 82, 83, 90–101, 91, 93, 94, 96, 100, 104, 105, 107, 111, 119, 121, 124, 135, 145, 163, 170, 172–3, 173, 176, 178
Homarus gammarus 10–11, 15, 23, 31–2, 38, 47–8, 52, 53, 54, 54, 58, 60, 69, 72, 72, 89, 95, 117, 123, 133, 135, 137, 139, 140, 141, 154, 155, 172, 175, 178
Jasus edwardsii 10–11, 57, 102
Jasus frontalis 65–7, 90
Jasus lalandii 57, 89
Jasus novaehollandiae 10–11
Jasus paulensis 90
Jasus verreauxi 60
Linuparus somniosus 21
Metanephrops andamanicus 18
Nephrops norvegicus 10–11, 16, 54, 171, 172
Palinurellus gundlachi 48
Palinurellus wieneckii 18
Palinurina longipes 55
Palinurus barbarae 170
Palinurus delagoae 86
Palinurus elephas 16, 48, 53, 53, 123
Palinurus gilchristi 85
Palibythus magnificus 21
Panulirus argus 10–11, 16, 27, 28–30, 79, 86, 90, 101, 161
Panulirus cygnus 10–11, 15, 48, 146, 171, 179
Panulirus gracilis 80
Panulirus interruptus 16, 24, 30, 161–3, 162, 166–7
Panulirus japonicus 14, 21, 89
Panulirus laevicauda 86
Panulirus marginatus 18
Panulirus ornatus 32
Panulirus penicillatus 80
Panulirus versicolor 33, 34, 79
Puerulus sewelli 21
Scyllarides astori 80
Scyllarides herklotsii 18
Scyllarides squammosus 170
Scyllarus arctus 40
Stereomastis sculpta 18
Thaumastocheles japonicus 167
Thenus orientalis 16, 86
Lobster Tale, A 146
Lobster Telephone 149, 151, 179
Lobstertown 143
Lobster Wars 145
London, Jack 148–50, 158
Long Island Sound lobster fishery 12–13, 38–9, 76, 82, 89–90, 92, 98, 99, 139, 178
Lord, W. B. 7, 33
Lussa Wood archaeological site 55
Lycett, Joseph 67
Lynes, George Platt 153
McCartney, Paul 177
McClintock, James 149
McIntosh, William Carmichael 52–3, 72
McKown, Freeman 114
Maine 12, 24, 64, 107, 108, 163, 173
eating lobster 9, 12, 114, 167
lobster fishery 8–9, 90–101, 91, 92, 94, 103, 139–40, 142–8, 143, 145
Maine Lobster Festival 103, 104, 115, 124, 126, 127
Maine Lobsterman, A, or A Day in the Life of a Fisherman 143–4, 178
Magnus, Albertus 58, 59
Magnus, Olaus 59, 59, 179
Major, John 62–3
management see conservation
Marden, Luis 99
Marine Stewardship Council 170–71, 179
Martin, Kenneth R. 92–3
Maximinus 59
May, Robert 109
Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough 96–7
Mercator, Gerard 51
Messina, Chris 125
Mexico
eating lobster 161
lobster fishery 89, 171
migration 27, 28–9, 30, 33
Monterey Bay Aquarium 99, 161–3, 166
Moore, Mary Tyler 125, 177
Morton shell mound 55
Morton, Thomas 64–5
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories 22
Mowat, Farley 95
Muldoon, Paul 156
Murray, Elizabeth 127
Murray, Ian 172
Museum of Science, Boston 62
National Marine Fisheries Service (US) 99
Natural History of the American Lobster 36, 36, 61, 164, 178
‘Negro’s Dying Blush, The’ 125
Nerval, Gérard de 155–6
New England’s Prospect 65
New English Canaan 64–5
New Zealand 57, 60, 67, 160, 178
lobster fishery 102
Noank, Connecticut 12–15, 77, 175
Norway 38, 52, 160
lobster fishery 59, 69–71, 71, 76, 80, 92, 101, 178
North American lobster fishery 85, 85, 89–101, 146
see also Long Island, Maine, Canada
nutritional value of lobster 122
Ocean Choice 172–3, 173
Oliver, Sandy 106–7, 111
Oser, Jean 143
Outin, Pierre 118
pain, ethics of dissecting/boiling alive 20, 42–4, 121, 122–7, 123, 124, 125, 126, 156–9, 173–7, 174
Parckhurst, Anthonie 64
Pauly, Daniel 171
Peninsula, The 139, 142
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) 125, 126, 127, 176
Phantom Lobster 139, 140–41, 145, 179
Phillips, Bruce 19
phyllosoma 47, 48, 48–9, 167
Pliny the Elder 59
Pomiane, Edouard de 123
Pontoppidan, Erich 59
Pope, Alexander 109
pot see trap
Powell, Julie 125
Powers, Tom 161–2, 162, 166–7
preservation 58, 65, 68, 77, 86, 91–3, 101–2, 109, 110, 173, 173, 179 see also canning
Punia and the King of Sharks 132, 158
Rathbun, Richard 107
recipes see lobster dishes
recreational lobster fishing 77–8, 79, 80
Red List Index, IUCN 90
Red Lobster, seafood restaurant chain 100, 176
Regulus 50–51, 54–5, 58
Renard, Louis 32, 33
‘Rhapsody upon a Lobster, A’ 115–16
Rich, Louise Dickinson 139, 142, 144, 146
reproduction and development 24–6, 28, 30, 33, 34, 37, 38, 41, 45, 45–9, 46, 47, 54, 97, 98 see also eggs
Roberts, Callum 171
Robinson Crusoe 65
‘Rock Lobster’ 159
roe see eggs
Rogers, Woodes 65
Ronalds, Bill 104
Rosier, James 64–5
Roux, Polydore 41
Rowan, John 94, 105
Rule, Saint see Regulus
Ruohomaa, Kosti 8
Sars, G. O. 38
Schele de Vere, M. 71
Scotland 50, 55, 65–6, 92, 135, 175
lobster fishery 54, 62–3, 71–5, 72, 74, 87, 172
scuba/hookah system 78, 79, 80, 179
Scully, Terence 109
Secret Life of Lobsters, The 147
Selkirk, Andrew 65–6
senses 26–31, 42–5
Sève, Peter de 21
sex/sexuality, human 20, 21, 69, 102, 108, 115–21, 118, 119, 120, 126, 150, 150–53, 152, 179
Sexton, Anne 135, 137
shell 25–6, 29, 30, 31, 31–4, 37–8, 42–5, 53, 54, 56, 94, 95, 100–1, 135, 147, 158, 166
Smith, Jesse Wilcox 132
Smith, John (explorer) 64
Smith, John (poet) 115–6
South Africa 57
lobster fishery 16, 81, 82, 86, 89
Sowerby, James 53
spear fishing 76, 78, 79, 94
Spence, Alan 81
Splash 117, 120
squat lobsters 17
St Andrews Aquarium 53
St Andrews, town of 50, 55, 72, 172
St Andrews, University of 51–4, 53, 62
Steinbeck, John 12
Stern Men 146–8
Streep, Meryl 125
Tenniel, John 155
theriomorphism 147–8
Thomas, Sonya 103
Thoreau, Henry David 76
Three Fevers 139, 140–42, 179
tomalley 44
Tiberius 59
Tonge, Olivia Frances 33
Train, Arthur 144
trap 8, 12, 21, 35, 45, 62, 71, 72–5, 73, 74, 74–5, 76–7, 77, 81, 80–87, 83, 85, 88, 92, 92, 95, 98, 133, 134–5, 137, 138, 139, 141, 141, 142, 143, 143, 144, 145, 145, 157, 160, 169, 169–70, 172, 179
Triple Elvis 150, 151
Tupaia 68
v-notch 45, 87–8,
Van Aken, Joseph 72
Van Utrecht, Adriaen 69
Venner, Tobias 115, 179
Verne, Jules 160, 164
Volovar, Vivian 84
Wallace, David Foster 124, 127
Walmsley, Leo 139, 139, 140, 140–42, 145, 146, 179
Walpole, Frederick 66
Wardlaw, Lee 132, 158
Water-Babies, The 133, 134, 148, 150
‘Water Baby, The’ 148–50
White, E. B. 143–4, 146, 178
White, Jasper 46, 116
Whitman, Walt 138
Winton, Tim 146
Whittaker, John 13–15, 17, 31, 76, 77, 82, 84, 88–90, 139, 171, 175
Wood, William 60, 65, 106, 179
Wooden Nickel, The 146, 147
Wyeth, N. C. 141