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Lobster Trivia | New England by the Numbers

25 number of times a lobster sheds its shell during the first five years of life 98 estimated number of calories in a typical 3-ounce serving of lobster 61:9.5 feet and inches: length of the world’s longest lobster roll, containing 48 pounds of meat, recorded at the Old Port Festival in Portland in 2009Get Our […]

A plastic container filled with live lobsters, each with their claws secured by blue rubber bands.

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Lobster25 number of times a lobster sheds its shell during the first five years of life

98 estimated number of calories in a typical 3-ounce serving of lobster

61:9.5 feet and inches: length of the world’s longest lobster roll, containing 48 pounds of meat, recorded at the Old Port Festival in Portland in 2009

94.6 million pounds: total Maine lobster catch in 2010

111-118 million pounds: est. total U.S. lobster catch in 2010

44 number of lobsters consumed by record holder Sonya Thomas in 12 minutes at a contest in Kennebunkport in 2005

5,244 lobstermen working Maine’s waters in 2010

10+ tons of lobster meat served from mid-April to mid-October 2010 in Wiscasset at Red’s Eats, Maine’s most famous lobster shack

273 miles: longest recorded distance (Gulf of Maine to Nantucket) that a tagged lobster has ever traveled

$300 million: estimated average annual worth of Maine’s lobster industry

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