A few years back researchers found a way to measure lobster age, something that had been a challenge until then: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/lobst

A few years back researchers found a way to measure lobster age, something that had been a challenge until then: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/lobster-age_n_2215990.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/lobster-age_n_22159... So give it a few more years and there should be some firm data on how negligibly senescent they actually are. Much of the present situation was a lack of good data.