What was the biggest lobster in the world

George is one of the most famous lobsters on this list because his story was featured in many international news publications. However, George was featured for his age and not his size, which was only about 20 pounds 9. According to PETA, who helped get George released, and the City Crab and Seafood restaurant, George was believed to be years old; George may have been the oldest lobster ever captured.

George was caught off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada and sold to the City Crab and Seafood restaurant. He lived at the restaurant for 10 days before a customer reported the lobster to PETA, who begged the restaurant to release him.

Restaurant manager Keith Valenti said that the restaurant never planned to sell the giant lobster to anyone to eat , but just wanted to drum up some attention. George was released in in a rocky cove in Kennebunkport, Maine, less than a mile from the summer home of former President George H. Source: New York Post. Over the years, Louie had grown to his last known size of 22 pounds 9. Yamali decided instead to release Louie and even invited town officials to the ceremony. Source: Reuters.

A lobster nicknamed Rocky was caught off the coast of Maine in and was described as being the same size as a 3 year old child. Rocky was caught in a shrimping net and brought to the Maine State Aquarium. This child-sized lobster weighed 27 pounds Rocky was turned over to the aquarium because Maine fishermen are not allowed to keep lobsters that measure more than 5 inches 1. According to Guinness World Records , the largest lobster caught officially called the Heaviest Marine Crustacean was 44 pounds 6 ounces The lobster was caught off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada in The Maine Department of Marine Resources estimates that this lobster may have been about years old.

The American lobster is the heaviest arthropod in the world , which is why there are so many entries on this list! From the photo, it does appear that the lobster was quite large. It was reportedly 33 inches The lobster was also mounted and may have been on its way to the private museum of a man named Charles Q.

Last week, a marine biologist found a giant 8-inch lobster claw off the shore of Wales, and judging from its size, the owner is believed to be between 2 and 3 feet long—about three times the size of an average lobster.

The claw is just a molting, meaning that the massive owner is likely still out there on the Welsh coastline waiting to be discovered. Shaun Krijnen, a marine biologist who runs his own oyster and mussel farm in the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll in Wales recently pulled a shockingly large lobster claw and carapace, the hard undershell of a crustacean, onto his boat while fishing for oysters.

Even from where I stood it looked to be quite large and I was hoping the whole lobster was there. The whole lobster was not there, but Krijnen believes it is likely still alive and thriving out on the British seafront.

This is because the carapace was opened along the molt line, implying that the lobster had not died but had merely shed its shell in order to grow a new one. This means that the crustacean is not only likely still alive, but also even larger than the claw implies. According to Krijnen, based on the size of the claw, he predicts that the owner is over 50 years old, "although it is hard to be accurate on the age Commercial "jumbo" lobsters that we are used to eating measure only about 5 inches in carapace length, and weigh between 3 and 4 pounds, although the average non-jumbo lobster only weighs around 1 pound.