Figure 1 2. Locations and numbers of tags returned from outside of Long Island Sound. 



Other researchers working in waters off New England and on the continental shelf demonstrated similar 

 exchanges between the inshore and offshore populations (Saila and Flowers 1968; Uzmann et al. 1977; 

 Fogarty et al. 1980). Judging from the number of returns from the Race area, it is believed that these 

 lobsters leave the Sound through that deep water channel southwest of Fishers Island. Once out of the 

 Sound lobsters would have moved southerly toward the deep water canyons (Block and Hudson) or 

 easterly (Point Judith, RI, Buzzards Bay, MA, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds). Recent work 

 by Campbell and Stasko (1985) off southwestern Nova Scotia revealed that mature male and female 

 lobsters ( > 95 mm CL) moved greater distances than immature lobsters ( < 95 mm CL). This hypothesis 

 is difficult to assess from our study results since exploitation rates are very high and most of the legal 

 lobsters tagged are caught by lobstermen shortly after release. However, 6 of the 7 lobsters caught at 

 Hudson Canyon were legal-sized and at Block Canyon all 3 were legal-sized. 



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