The push for a commercial lobster farm industry in tasmania is growing faster than anticipated, and new lobster farms are currently being planned on the Sunshine Coast.
A recent study commissioned by the NSW Department of Primary Industries and Mines (DPMI) found that Tasmania had the highest population densities and highest lobster numbers in Europe.
The study found Tasmania is also amongst the most productive marine mammal populations in the world, particularly in its north coast at Lake Eyre, Lake Macquarie, and Port Macquarie.
Sectional differences in lobsters
"While the populations of all other major marine mammals in Tasmania are now comparable to what is found in other countries, we are finding that the lobster population is distinct in its populations in that the number of lobsters in an individual is much lower in Tasmania than in other countries," the study said.
A study in 2013 by the University of Sydney found Tasmania's lobster population has decreased by 97 per cent since the 1990s.
"The Tasmanian lobster fishery has recently become a very high profile issue in the public debate in Tasmania, and it is evident that this trend is on track to reverse," the authors of the study said in a statement.
The latest survey, which is ongoing, will focus on the region around the lakes, the Sea Islands and the Macquarie Basin as a result of data collected through surveyor boats and the annual catch monitoring survey in May 2012.
The number of commercial lobster farms began to increase following an agreement by the state government and a lobster farm consultant, which saw the number of lobster farms capped in 2012.
The annual lobster catch was now reported in the same way as for other other marine mammals.
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