Baked Stuffed Lobster New England-style

Ingredients

• unsalted butter
  8 tablespoons
• butter

  melted (for brushing)
  3 tablespoons
• onion

  finely diced
  1 medium
• tarragon

  leaves picked and coarsely chopped
  2 sprigs
• Italian parsley

  leaves picked and coarsely chopped
  2 sprigs
• peeled raw Maine shrimp or raw scallops or cooked crabmeat or lobster meat

  cut into ½-inch dice
  4 ounces
• kosher salt or sea salt
  1 unit
• freshly ground black pepper
  1 unit
• hard shell select lobsters (1½ to 2½ pounds each)
  2 unit
• common crackers or oyster crackers or dried cornbread

  crumbled
  3 ounces