So why is it called Boston lobster? It is because the United States air transport to Asia are to be transshipment at the Boston airport, labeled "from Boston", so that many people mistakenly think that the Boston lobster from Boston.
What we often say? Boston lobster? , the official Chinese name is actually called the American crayfish (American lobster), the reason why called crayfish in fact, from its pair of large pincers can be seen, it essentially belongs to the sea crayfish, and to the Australian dragon as a representative of the ? No chelipeds under the order? Those members are seen as lobsters in the true sense of the word.
The American crayfish (Boston lobster) is mainly distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of North America, such as Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador and the U.S. state of Maine is an important source of Boston lobster in this area of free movement between the reproduction of the U.S. state of Maine is the famous origin of the Boston lobster, and therefore Boston lobster in the United States, commonly known as the Maine lobster? Maine lobster? And the capital of Massachusetts, Boston was once an important shipping port, many of the products are shipped to the world, Maine lobster is also included, over time, from the port of Boston exported to the world of Maine lobster (American crayfish) is also customarily referred to as? Boston lobster? This is like the peas spread by the Dutch maritime trade in China is customarily called? Dutch beans?
Boston Lobster
Boston lobsters are so abundant that one-sixth of the U.S. production of Boston lobsters is exported to China. Although Boston lobsters have a long growth cycle (gaining one pound every seven years), almost all of the Boston lobsters on the market are wild-caught. Those fishermen in the main production areas do not worry about the depletion of the lobster resource, on the contrary, a little too much lobster caught each year, how to sell (let the Chinese people love Boston lobster) is the big problem. The wild population of Boston lobster has always been strong because the number of fish that feed on lobster, such as cod, has been declining over the past few decades, which has led to a huge increase in the population