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Methods To Use To Ensure Quality Lobster Delivery

By Thomas Smith


Lobsters are highly perishable commodities. Owing to this, for efficient shipping it requires a lot of attention. They are normally transported while alive so as to enhance efficient lobster delivery. To keep it alive throughout the journey, important packaging and shipping arrangements need to be done. Any act performed to enhance transportation should help in making them remain moist and cool throughout the journey.

The main reason why it should remain cool is because it uses less oxygen hence can move longer distances. High temperatures results in increase in the amount of oxygen consumed. This means that the chances of suffocation are high due to its fast rate of oxygen. Most of them die during transportation due to lack of oxygen.

For gills to perform the role of gaseous exchange, they need to remain moist most of the time. This is the major reason why they need to be placed in a moist environment. If well preserve they can live out of seawater for about four to five days. A lot of carbon dioxide is generally produced by dry ice and therefore it is not advisable to keep it close to dry ice. If kept in fresh water, it swells up a condition that could result in bursting.

They are normally transported in trucks that are refrigerated. In these trucks, the temperatures are well regulated to ensure that the best possible environment is met. On the other hand one may intend to transport it while under seawater. To make this successful there is the need to ensure that the tanks are properly aerated. These conditions must be met so that can be transported for longer distances while alive.

Before shipping them, make them cool so as to avoid abrupt change in temperature from warm to a cold, a situation that could make them stressed up. Although they are good in putting up with temperature changes, they are highly affected negatively by sudden temperature changes.

It is advisable not to feed them few days between two to three days before transportation. When full they consume oxygen gas at relatively high rate that may increase their chances of suffocating. The situation may also increase the chances of vomiting which makes the environment messy and not attractive to look at.

It is very essential to ensure that you transport them in a place where there is an opening so as to allow carbon oxide gas produced escape to the atmosphere. Carrying them in airtight container, results in carbon dioxide gas accumulating inside, a situation that may not be good for the organisms. It results in having very small room for the oxygen. Packaging should be done in such a way that the shells do not break during the transportation.

There are many companies that engage in lobster transportation. This shows that it is very important to use efficient method to select the best company to make the process successful. To get one you, may search online or even ask friends or relatives who have ever received such services. Choose one, which is highly modernized and whose prices are friendly.




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