They don’t seem to know...reminds me of chronic wasting disease in the whitetail deer population.
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Mystery-in-the-Sound-Why-are-the-shells-of-625907.php
Millions have been spent cleaning up the CT River and they did a pretty good job of it in the past few decades....the LI sound seems to be problematic however; it’s been a few years since I’ve had lobster from CT boats. It’s a shame.
They’ve been promoting a ban: http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2010/06/biologists-urge-5year-lobster.html
Grown men cry: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/06/AR2007100601341.html
Moochelle will be deeply saddened when she hears this.