Water use was 23 L kg_1 of live exported lobster. Wash down post pack out accounted for 41% however the majority of water used (46%) across the life cycle of TSRL was at the capture stage, mainly for the production of cardboard packaging for transporting bait. Bait use in fishing was the source of 5% of the total global warming emissions and 6% of CED (Table 2). Fishing gear (traps) was not a large source of impact in any of the categories measured