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ORONO, Maine (AP) — The University of Maine says an undergraduate animal and veterinary science major developed a method to evaluate lobster shipping viability based on claw strength.
The school says Matthew Hodgkin is using a device that measures the closing strength of a lobster's crusher claw. The device allows for testers to determine muscle mass measurements without using a blood sample. The blood sample procedure is commonly used in the industry.
Lobsters with less muscle mass are not able to handle the stress of shipping.
Hodgkin is a fourth-year student from Colebrook, Connecticut. The school says he developed the method working with the university's Lobster Institute executive director Bob Bayer, mechanical engineering professor Michael Peterson and mechanical engineering student Thomas McKay.
The university says Hodgkin and Bayer also co-own a lobster-related business.
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