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George (hatched approximately 1869) is an American lobster owned briefly by the City Crab and Seafood restaurant in New York City.Captured in December 2008, he was released back into the wild in January 2009.
According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest crustacean ever recorded was an American lobster caught off Nova Scotia, Canada, weighing 20.1 kg (44.4 lb). [13] [14] The closest relative of H. americanus is the European lobster, Homarus gammarus.
The World's Largest Lobster (French: Le plus grand homard du monde) is a concrete and reinforced steel sculpture in Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada sculpted by Canadian artist Winston Bronnum. Despite being known by its name The World's Largest Lobster , it is not actually the largest lobster sculpture.
A fifth generation fisherman who caught a giant lobster in the Gulf of Maine on May 30, reckoned the crustacean was around 100 years old and could quite possibly have met the previous four ...
Lobster is fished in water between 2 and 900 metres (1 and 500 fathoms), although some lobsters live at 3,700 metres (2,000 fathoms). Cages are of plastic-coated galvanized steel or wood. A lobster fisher may tend to as many as 2,000 traps. Around the year 2000, owing to overfishing and high demand, lobster aquaculture expanded. [86]
Dalí had already introduced the lobster as an erotic symbol in his 1936 surrealist object “Lobster Telephone,” and the following year, Schiaparelli offered him a new kind of blank canvas ...
Big Jake was a famous lobster caught off the coast of Boston, Massachusetts that was sold to Jeffrey Pyska of Anchorage, Alaska who requested a large lobster. Big Jake was a popular attraction due to his large size and weight, at 25 pounds, to Pyska's customers.
The California spiny lobster is one of the largest spiny lobster species, [4] and grows up to 60 centimeters (24 in) long, but does not usually exceed 30 cm (12 in). [3] Males can weigh up to 7.4 kilograms (16 lb)., [4] with the record being a 16 lbs., 1 oz. male caught off Catalina island in 1968. The upper side of the animal is brownish red ...