A Look At 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.

Gills as a respiratory surfaces, should remain moist and aerated for proper functioning. This indicates that the place to be kept during transportation should be highly aerated and moist. When these conditions are met, it can leave out of sea for an average of around four days. Dry ice can result in much carbon dioxide production which is not important at all to the organisms. It is not advisable to leave it in an area full of fresh water because it may burst.

If one intends to transport it while under seawater, one should ensure that the container in which it has been placed is highly aerated for efficiency. The most commonly used mode of transportation involves the use of trucks that have been refrigerated. Within these trucks, temperature and moisture are well regulated for their betterment. Under these conditions, they are able to remain alive throughout the journey.

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.

Do not let them feed immediately before transportation. This is because they are likely to vomit, making the environment a grotesque one. At the same time they may require too much oxygen, to enhance respiration which may be at its maximum. This high demand of oxygen may not be available and may make it consume the available one within a short duration of time.

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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