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Kathy Castro of the University of Rhode Island and John Catena of NOAAremove hatchery-reared American lobsters and place them into salt-waterfilled bags. The lobsters will then be transported to the cobble reefs in smallbatches and hand released onto the reefs. The process of raising, tagging andreleasing the lobsters to study them was very time-consuming and labor intensive