Here are some fascinating facts about lobsters. Please read them, consider them, and check out the 'Save Lives' page to see what you can do to help save sea life.

* Crabs and lobsters have complex nervous systems, almost a miniture version of the human system, which allow them to feel pain.

* Lobsters have nine brains throughout their body. If one is destroyed, it causes unimagianable pain to the lobster.

* When you or I are seriously hurt, our body trys to numb the pain by shutting down - lobsters feel everything that is happening to them. They do however produced mild anaesthesia when hurt - proof that they feel pain.

* Lobsters have a fascinating ability to explore their surroundings, communicate and establish social relationships.

* Lobsters have highly developed senses of smell and taste - they are able to 'smell' chemicals in the water with their antennae, and taste with sensory hairs along their legs.

* If they can avoid capture, lobsters can live for over 100 years.

* Lobsters, like humans, have long childhoods, and an awkward adolescence.

* It is believed that lobsters can be either left or right handed.

* Fish and shellfish often accumulate extremely high levels of toxins in their flesh (as much as 9 million times that of the water in which they live) such as PCB’s, dioxins, mercury, lead, and arsenic, which can cause health problems ranging from kidney damage and impaired mental development to cancer, paralytic shellfish poisoning and even death.

* During killing, the lobsters are often plunged into boiling water, or are gradually heated. For some dishes they are cut up, or even grilled whilst still conscious. Lobster mousse is made by scrapping the flesh from the shell whilse the animal is still alive!

* When boiled, lobsters are often observed whipping their tails and attempting to claw their way from the pot. It can take 15 seconds, to 7 minutes for lobsters to die when boiled.