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Overfished lobsters get big and plentiful when offered safe haven

Crustacean populations boomed after Norway established marine sanctuaries.
Close-up of a bucket of lobsters with taped claws

A European lobster. The species’s population rebounded in Norwegian waters where lobster fishing was prohibited. Credit: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty

Protecting an overfished lobster species helps the crustaceans to grow big, according to an analysis of European lobsters in marine sanctuaries1.

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Nature 611, 639 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03708-2

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  1. Sørdalen, T. J., Halvorsen, K. T. & Olsen, E. M. Proc. R. Soc. B https:///doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1718 (2022).

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