We deliver live, premium fresh Yule Island Tropical Lobsters to your doorstep. A cooperative of Yule Island Tropical Lobster Farmers and their families.
YULE ISLAND: EACH YEAR, beginning in August, sexually-mature tropical rock lobsters from the Torres Strait begin a four-month migration north-east, through the Gulf of Papua, towards Yule Island just off the Papua New Guinea mainland. Studies suggest that the Yule Island is the furthest extent of the migratory path of the Panulirus ornatus, the point of no return for the migratory adults. They die
at the end of the season from the stress of migration and reproduction.1 The eggs hatch after a month or so, again beginning the cycle and planktonic phyllosoma larval are thought to float back to the Coral Sea and into the Torres Strait on the Hiri boundary current. Around the island, the lobsters are caught alive by hand during the day or else with hand-held nets. For the communities on Yule Island, given the limited capacity for agriculture on the land, the lobsters have become an important commodity— as food, but more so as an item for trade. Faced with a growing need for cash to pay for school fees, trade-store goods and petrol for the outboard motors which connect them to the mainland—and with few other viable economic activities on the island—selling the lobsters to a growing global market has also become a crucial means of earning income. YULE ISLAND LOBSTERS DIRECT is a cooperative of Yule Island Tropical Lobster Farmers and their families.
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