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- BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesSEAFOODVacations for Crustaceans?
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- Jet lag is hard enough on humans, but for Homarus americanus
- it can be deadly. As many as one-fourth of the Maine lobsters
- on flights to burgeoning markets in Asia die during the long
- trip, even though they travel in comfy insulated containers.
- A research team organized by the Lobster Institute at the
- University of Maine is considering an answer to the problem:
- a rest stop at a first-class lounge in Hawaii. If they were
- plunked into a so-called relay pound, the weary crustaceans
- could stretch their claws and absorb oxygen from Pacific
- seawater for a day or so before resuming their voyage.
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- Building a crustacean resort may be a worthwhile investment
- for seafood shippers, since lobster meat sells for as much as
- $40 a lb. in Japan and Taiwan. The large-scale tank, which
- could hold more than 1 million lbs. of live lobster, would
- contain sea water pumped from the ocean depths at a temperature
- of about 40 degrees F.
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