Spiny Lobster

Photo: Brenton Prigge · CC BY-NC

The reserve status around Skomer sustains healthy spiny lobster populations sheltering beneath boulders and kelp holdfasts, their antennae sweeping the current for food. Skomer holds one of the best remaining Welsh populations of this once-common species, which has been commercially depleted elsewhere in the Bristol Channel. Night dives reveal them foraging actively across open rock, their behaviour far more expansive than during daylight hours.