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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.
It attracts 500,000 visitors per year. [2] Contrary to popular belief, this is not actually the "World's Largest Lobster" as that title went to the Big Lobster sculpture in Kingston, South Australia, until 2015 when Qianjiang , Hubei, China built a 100-tonne lobster/crayfish.
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]
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 ...
Of the three largest lobster producing states, Maine, produces lobsters all year long, with the catch being the highest from June until December. As for Florida, lobster season tends to be from ...
As it turns out, though, the lobster's owner is unhappy with its viral fame. Georgia resident Christopher Stracuzza was flying the 20-pound crustacean, named "Dinnah," along with smaller lobsters ...
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 .
On menus, the aquatic arthropod can reach sky-high prices: a blue lobster paella for $230 in Las Vegas, a lobster tower for nearly $700 in Toronto, or giant salted egg lobster for $460 in Vietnam ...