The world’s first pilot lobster farm off Sabah’s Semporna district holds the potential for billions in revenue

Pioneer: Sarria (above) holding an adolescent lobster at the hatchery in Sabah.

THE Integrated Lobster Aquaculture Project (iLAP), which was started in October 2010, is a world’s first integrated lobster farming project and is seen as a harbinger of great economic change in Sabah once the project kicks into full gear.

Presently, a several thousand tropical spiny lobsters, which are valued at US$50 (RM154) per kilo, are the subject of intensive research at iLAP’s test farm within the lobster aquaculture park in Semporna.