I guess I’m in an extremely cynical mood today. I read the article not so much as “We’re worried about killing the lobsters” as “We’re not happy that the lobsters died and we didn’t get a chance to eat them”
I’ve done alot of crabbing and salmon fishing and one thing I know is that if something dies in the water, it DOES NOT go to waste!
That’s what all the herring and flounders and crabs and octopuses depend on!
They do go to waste inside of a perpetual trap though, that’s the point. Stuff gets in, it doesn’t get out to do its thing elsewhere. It dead-ends in the trap. Unless philosophically, you are saying that little microbes will decay them and their atoms will float out eventually.