Big critters

Subject: Big critters
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 07:50 PM

Big Lobster?

Subject: RE: Big critters
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 11:24 PM

There's a link on that page for unusual fish. I thought that was interesting.

I don't suppose the guys threw the lobster back, did they?

SRS

Subject: RE: Big critters
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jun 11 - 06:37 AM

Restaurants often buy them for display. Been a few blues caught here lately too.

Here's an article from our newsapaper on Friday...

I hope I am the first to extend congratulations to Back Bay fisherman Troy Mitchell for his excellent luck in the capture of 'Tiny,' a lobster of unusual size who tips the scales at 22.3 pounds.

The entire Mitchell family is also to be commended for putting the creature up for public auction, the proceeds of which will go to a highly worthwhile recipient in the Charlotte County Cancer Society.

However I do have some concerns about the ambitions the Mitchell family has for Tiny's future.

It may seem compassionate of them to hope the successful bidder will then donate Tiny to the Huntsman Marine Science Centre where presumably he, or possibly she, can live out the rest of his or her days.

But I will caution the family that even though a lobster this size is probably well advanced in years, lobsters can live for a century or more; plenty of time to plot an escape. And security protocols at the Huntsman Centre are not all they are cracked up to be, or so I hear.

Readers who saw the story on our front page yesterday (or see it now on canadaeast.com) will note in the photograph of the beast that young Emmerson Hatt, who appears to about two years of age, maintains a healthy distance from Tiny.

Wise beyond his years, that young man! Perhaps he knows, as I do, that the lobster breed is ancient, evolved long before the advent of humans and their sloppily sentimental ways.

He knows that the lobster creed is much the same as that of his evolutionary cousins, the deadly spider; the scurrilous scorpion. Give him half a chance (and the right conditions, such as that you've been under water for a few days) and Tiny would eat you just as soon as look at you.

Just look at those beady eyes; coldly assessing, probably, the nutritive value of the legs surrounding him on the pavement.

Now being something of an expert on lobster lore I am willing to accept Tiny from the Mitchells at no charge. I would give this unfeeling, potentially criminal crustacean the fate he richly (for all we know) deserves.

Justice is served, with fresh Northumberland Dairy Co-op butter and a nice crusty bun from Nana's.

But perhaps this generous proposal seems, to you, less than admirable.

Ppphh. Perhaps you just want 'Tiny' for yourself.

Or perhaps you're just a typical, sloppily sentimental (yet civically loyal) Monctonian who would rather see 'Tiny' live (but in Moncton).
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The rest of the article is about other Moncton "stuff".

Subject: RE: Big critters
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Jun 11 - 07:22 AM

FISH

Subject: RE: Big critters
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jun 11 - 12:08 PM

REAL fishing.

Subject: RE: Big critters
From: Ed T
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 07:18 AM

The rest of the story

Subject: RE: Big critters
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 03:32 PM

Thanks for posting that, Mr T!

SRS

Subject: RE: Big critters
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 03:41 PM

Me too... Ed... thanks. It's heart warming.