[header] How to buy a maine lobster [title] Choose the correct animal. [substeps] Although other warm water parts of the world have animals called lobster-rock and spiny, for example-only the cold waters off the new england coast are home to true maine lobsters. Maine lobsters are distinctive do to their large claws that are full of meat. 
The rock and spiny lobsters have no claws, so their tail only produces meat. Maine lobsters molt from july through october and some of the animals caught during this time are known as " soft-shell.