Scientists Release Lobsters To Repopulate Former Habitat

HELGOLAND, GERMANY - AUGUST 03: A volunteer with the Helgoland Biological Institute (Biologische Anstalt Helgoland), part of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, tosses an adult female European lobster (Homarus gammarus) into the North Sea before also releasing baby lobsters on August 3, 2013 off the coast of Helgoland Island, Germany. Scientists released a total of 415 one-year old lobsters as part of an effort to repopulate the lobster population around Helgoland (also called Heligoland). In the 19th century local fishermen caught up to 80,000 lobsters a year in the surrounding waters, combined with the heavy allied bombing of the island during and after World War II, as well as other environmental factors, decimated the lobster population. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)