Well look what the tide dragged in this week...22.3 lb (10 kg) lobster! One of our lobster fishermen, Troy Mitchell, and his son Ian just landed their largest-ever single lobster catch, which they nicknamed "Tiny".Troy has put the lobster up for sale online in hopes someone might want to save Tiny, either to donate to the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews, N.B. to display or to set him free.
He says his preference is to donate the proceeds to the local Cancer Society charity, instead of selling the lobster to the market within the next few days.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest lobster ever found was a 20-kilogram (44 pounds) beast, caught off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1977.
An average caught lobster in the Bay of Fundy is in the 1.5 pounds to two pounds range.
Oh and how old would a 22 lb lobster be? good question: about 40 years!
Three years ago in New Brunswick, a 10-kilogram lobster named Dee-Dee was saved from a boiling pot by a $1,000 donation, even though a fish shop owner was offered $5,000 by a group that wanted to eat it.
Terri, do you know where the lobster is being auctioned off or if it's been bought already?
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