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Anna-Sophie Brands (L) and Susanne Wiechmann, volunteers at the Helgoland Biological Institute (Biologische Anstalt Helgoland), part of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, pull baby European lobsters (Homarus gammarus) from their cubbies at the institute to load them onto trays and later release them into the North Sea on August 3, 2013 at Helgoland Island, Germany. Scientists released a total of 415 one-year old lobsters as part of an effort to repopulate the lobster population around Helgoland (also called Heligoland). In the 19th century local fishermen caught up to 80,000 lobsters a year in the surrounding waters, combined with the heavy allied bombing of the island during and after World War II, as well as other environmental factors, decimated the lobster population. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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