The Love Maine Lobsters’ Mobile Lobster Sales Business is an environmentally responsible way to provide a nice living for your family and your efforts help support a national marine aquarium grant program. Everyone Wins: the Independent Dealers who make nice profits, students since lobster sales support marine science education and the environment because the Maine lobster Industry is recognized as a model for sustainable fishing.
The American lobster fishery is Maine’s signature fishery. In 2009, the dockside value of Maine lobster was $185 million, with an estimated economic impact on the state economy of $500 million, supporting 5930 commercial lobster/crab licenses. 
The role of lobstering dominates Maine’s fishing economy. A combination of lobster abundance and various changes in technology resulted in a shift from various inshore fisheries to a virtually single species fishery and a dependence on lobster that is unprecedented in Maine’s fishing history, so important to Maine’s way of life that lobster sustainability and management occurs at many levels.
Maine regulates the fishery through legislative action and Department of Marine Resources. The state participates in interstate management through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Maine has delegated some authority directly to the lobster industry, which is one of the most significant examples of co-management in the country.
The state is divided into seven management zones each of which is divided into voting districts. Lobstermen elect representatives to a council that helps 
enact legislation designed to ensure the sustainability of Maine lobster, have the power to limit entry in the zone through an entry/exit ratio, and one member from each zone sits on the statewide Lobster Advisory Council.
Maine lobster regulations protect both juveniles and large lobsters through a dual gauge system that includes a minimum and maximum length and limit each boat to 800 traps. Lobstermen voluntarily notch the tails of egged-out female protecting them from harvest for several years ensuring an abundant female lobster population prime for reproduction. Furthermore, Lobster fishing is restricted to traps, and Maine regulates lobster traps dimensions so that vents release undersized lobsters.
The Maine Lobster Industry thrives because of an historical co-management effort that protects people, lobster and the environment. The Love Maine Lobsters’ Mobile Lobster Sales Business provides an unique opportunity to support marine aquarium education, while establishing a business in a proven industry that will last generation after generation after generation. Contact Love Maine Lobsters to learn more about this profitable opportunity, tell them that Touch-Tank sent you.
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Teaching aquarium innovator and 5th grade teacher at West Harpswell Elementary School located in Maine, Mrs. Giberson and some her students share their science classroom tank experience through a interesting video. Topics include: maintenance, feeding, and handling the creatures of the cold-water touch tank. Enjoy! Grants Available
This video of a science classroom tank is one of the best that Touch-Tank as ever seen. Many schools, museums, educational centers and even businesses make the decision to install a science classroom tank aquarium as a means to reach students and educate customers.
They reduce stress allowing for superior learning, minimize nervousness relaxing students helping them learn and lessens anxiety assisting small children who aren’t used to being away their parents adjust to the new environment.
They show students how fish live, demonstrate the value of natural aquatic habitats, teach children responsibilities as they care for the live inhabitants, and encourage respect as caretakers learn to nurture and care for those more vulnerable than themselves.
Aquariums teach people about the importance of marine and aquatic resources and they are great fun! If you want to explore the possibilities of supplying a superior teaching experience to your students, apply for a Touch Tanks for Kids Grant and discover how to bring a science classroom tank to a location near you.
Having an educational aquarium in the classroom has a number of benefits, 
including learning, health and environmental benefits. This is why so many educators use touch tanks to reach students, parents and yes, even administrators. Touch-Tank hopes that you enjoyed this video of a science classroom tank has much as we did!
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A horseshoe crab makes a nice resident for your marine aquariums. Touch-Tank caught up with Coastal Carol an expert in intertidal exploration to learn more about the horseshoe crabs that have survived for over 250 million years. The video depicts some of what we learned about the horseshoe crab.
Contact Touch Tanks for Kids to bring an interactive aquarium experience to your students. They will learn more when observing a horseshoe crab molt and mature. Grants available!
Caution:
Handle with care; you can pinch your fingers between the two parts of the shell.
Mating
Each spring during the high tides of the new and full moons, horseshoe crabs come to the sandy shorelines to spawn. They lay there green eggs in sand and depend on waves to wash the sand over the nest.
Males are generally smaller than their mates. They cluster along the water’s edge and wait patiently for the females to arrive. The male attaches to the female’s shell with glove-like claws and awaits high tide. He fertilizes the eggs when he is pulled over the nest where the female deposit as many as 20,000 green eggs in sand. After the spring ritual is over, they return to the deeper waters of the ocean.
Horseshoe Crab Facts
They are not really crabs 
They are related to scorpions, ticks and spiders
They have their own classification (Class Merostomata)
Their blood is blue
They are not dangerous
They are found along the western shores of the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to the Yucatan with another three species living in the coastal waters from Japan to Indonesia
They can go a year without eating
Their hard, curved shells protect them from predators.
They endure extreme temperatures and salinity changes
Their tails push them through the sand and muck, act as a rudder, and help them turnover
Their central mouth is surrounded by its legs 
Their eggs take about 2 weeks to hatch
They have 2 compound eyes on the top of their shells with a range of about 3 feet
They can swim upside down and use a dozen legs and a flap hiding nearly 200 flattened gills to propel themselves
They usual feed at night but will eat anytime
They burrow for worms and mollusks
They grow by twenty-five percent while molting
The larvae molt six times during the first year
After sixteen molts, they completely mature into adults, maturity takes
between 9 and 12 years
Before the arrival of artificial fertilizers, they were dried for used as fertilizer and poultry food supplements.
Some fish eat the juveniles and the recently molted
Their eggs are important food for migratory shore birds that pass over the Delaware Bay during the spring mating season
Extract from their blood is used to test the purity of medicines.
Parts of their shells speed blood clotting and are used for absorbent sutures. Read more on Horseshoe Crabs Love Marine Aquariums…
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Many schools, museums, educational centers and even businesses make
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the decision to install an innovative teaching aquarium as a means to reach students and educate customers.
Teaching aquariums have a number of benefits, including learning, health and environmental benefits. This is why so many educators and businesspeople decide to improve the décor of their space with a teaching aquarium.
Reduce stress-allowing for superior learning
Minimize nervousness-relaxing prospects helping them purchase
Lessen anxiety-helping small children who aren’t used to being away from their parents for a extended period of time adjust to the new environment
Show students how fish live
Demonstrate the value of natural aquatic habitats
Teach children responsible as they care for the live inhabitants
Encourage respect as caretakers learn to nurture other living things and care for those more vulnerable than themselves.
Install a teaching aquarium into your classroom, museum, educational center, or business today. Your abilities to educate your students about aquatic life will improve and your business will sell more products.
Prime Toyota of Saco, Maine installed a innovation teaching aquarium on their showroom floor last year. The salespeople love it because it signifies the company’s commitment to environmental education and it gives the kids something to do allowing time for their parents to purchase cars.
“What a great way to connect children to the environment.” Said Ira Rosenberg, chief executive officer of Prime Motor Group
Innovative Teaching Aquariums teach people about the importance of marine and aquatic resources and they are great fun! If you want to explore the possibilities of supplying a superior teaching experience to your students and customers contact Marine Ecological Habitats or Touch Tanks for Kids today!
Please share you innovative teaching ideas by posting a comment. Your participate is appreciated.
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Marine Ecological Habitats designs and builds the best self-contained marine
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aquariums available. They use the highest-quality American-made cast acrylic and the quality is unmatched. All their systems include superior parts that will not rust, corrode or delaminate, and filtration systems use the finest biological, chemical and particle removal process that provides a healthier environment for both marine life and people who use Marine Eco’s equipment.
Touch Tanks are long-term scientific research/teaching tools. Like all of Marine Eco’s marine habitats’ products, Touch Tanks feature the finest quality components, including three quarter inch American Acrylic and are designed to last many years.Their marine aquariums are child-friendly, easy to maintain and mobile. The tank’s design allows educators to recreate life in the sea to a remarkable degree of accuracy.
Touch-Tank highly recommends Marine Ecological Habitats products because 
of their superior quality that prevents environmental issues. The Biddeford, Maine Company offers several touch tank designs and Touch-Tank would like to introduce our readers to three unique Marine Eco’s touch tanks that provide a greater learning experience: the original touch tank, the Sea Bus and the L-shaped touch tank.
The original touch tank retails for $7000. The 110-gallon self-contained unit overall size is 60” long, 32” Wide, and 36” high. It is prefect for classroom instruction!
The Sea Bus retails for $4000. The 25-gallon self-contained unit is a completely mobile classroom, prefect for short-term educational presentation.
The L Shaped touch tank retails for $13,500. The self-contained touch tank, presently in construction will soon be on display at the Environmental Learning Center (ELC): 255 Live Oak Drive, Vero Beach, FL 32963; Phone: 772-589-5050; Email: Info@DiscoverELC.org
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday – Friday 10am-4pm
Saturday 9am-12pm (extended to 4pm during winter season),
Sunday 1pm – 4pm
Contact Marine Ecological Habitats to learn more about their marien aquariums and other products.
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