69°50' 



69°40' 



69°30' 



Figure 6. — Boothbay Harbor, Maine, region showing dispersal of recaptured tagged American lobsters, May 1975-September 1977. Number of recaptures given at 

 each recovery point. Shaded area represents percentage of recaptured lobsters that traveled in a given direction (30° bearing intervals). 



release areas. Of course, it should be remembered that this 

 shoreward movement may have been influenced by the reloca- 

 tion of tagged animals from where they were originally caught. 

 Limited movement toward the east, which was particularly evi- 

 dent at Boothbay Harbor, might be the result of the 

 counterclockwise current along the Maine coast. Accordingly, 

 all long distance migrants (_^_20 n.mi., 37.0 km) of this study 



appeared to travel in the direction of the prevailing south to 

 southwesterly coastal currents (Fig. 1). Likewise, the major 

 migrants of Dow's (1974) tagging study followed a south by 

 southwesterly course as they moved from Maine coastal waters 

 toward New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Moreover, recent 

 returns of several tagged Canadian lobsters (released off 

 Grand Manan Island, N.B. (Fig. 1)) from various locations in 



