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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.
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 Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi), also called Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster, is the largest freshwater invertebrate and the largest freshwater crayfish species in the world. The species is only found in the rivers below 400 metres (1,300 ft) above sea level in northern Tasmania, an island-state of Australia.
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]
Selling wild-caught, out-grown rock lobster originated in countries like Vietnam and China. In the early 2000s, it was discovered that the waters surrounding Indonesia hosted the largest P. ornatus communities ever seen and therefore, Indonesia had the potential to host the world's largest lobster aquaculture industry.
As maritime trade began reshaping the world, lobster became a key ingredient for aristocratic Europeans who served feasts stacked with exotic global ingredients to flex their wealth and power.
The fossil record of spiny lobsters has been extended by the discovery in 1995 of a 110-million-year-old fossil near El Espiñal in Chiapas, Mexico. Workers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico have named the fossil Palinurus palaecosi , and report that it is closest to members of the genus Palinurus currently living off the coasts ...
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