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According to research. However, scientists will be unable to determine how long lobsters live because traps are not designed to catch the largest lobsters. "When we get a 20-30 pounder, it's because a claw got hooked in the trap's entry, not inside," explains Robert C. Bayer, executive director of The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine.