A lobster found recently off the coast of Santa Barbara in California
definitely belongs to the upper crust of crustaceans. The giant lobster
reportedly weighs nearly 12 pounds and is estimated to be a whopping 70
years old. The Huffington Post reports:
Biologist Forrest Galante, 26, caught the extra-large
lobster while freediving near Anacapa Island on Oct. 6 and immediately
realized he had something extraordinary.
“I’ve been doing this for ten years and I’ve never seen a lobster as
big as Albert Girther -– which is his name,” Galante told Barcroft TV.
“I mean any lobster that can dare hug a man must be pretty huge and he
had no problem with that.”
California lobsters rarely get above 3 pounds due to overfishing, and
Galante admits he was tempted to turn the creature into a giant lobster
feast.
“I’ve got to say it was very tempting to take him home and eat him –-
he had pounds and pounds of delicious meat but he was clearly a good
breeder, so my family and I decided that we had to put him back into the
water so he could have more children,” Galante said, according to the
Mirror.
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