A lobster can release thousands of babies at once, and a large female may produce up to 100,000 eggs.

Quick scoop

  • Smaller females often carry around 5,000 to 20,000 eggs.
  • Bigger, older females can carry 40,000 to 100,000 eggs or more.
  • Not all survive; only a small share make it to adulthood.

So the short answer is: a lobster can release anywhere from a few thousand to around 100,000 babies, depending on the female’s size.

Tiny wording fix

You wrote “relase,” which is usually spelled release.

Bottom note

Lobster babies hatch as larvae, not tiny mini-lobsters, and they drift in the water before growing through many molts.