Tuffy Forwarded this along to me from http://www.NovaNewsNow.com
Six-year-old Kallista dāEntremont of West Pubnico, Nova Scotia has her hands, and arms, full with a 16.4-pound lobster her father Jeff recently caught aboard his vessel, āOn the Move.ā
Usually West Pubnico lobster fisherman Jeff dāEntremont and his crew will stick a rubber band around the claws of the lobster they catch.
But one lobster he recently pulled aboard his vessel āOn the Moveā was so big the crew had to improvise with black electrical tape around the crusher claw.
āIt was the only thing that we could get around it,ā dāEntremont laughs.
The lobster dāEntremont caught weighed 16.4 pounds and was about three feet, or around a metre, in length.
Asked what the reaction was when the huge crustacean was hauled aboard the vessel, dāEntremont says, āI donāt know what to tell you. We just said, āOh my God.āā
DāEntremont was fishing about 58 miles offshore from the Dennis Point Wharf the day the lobster was caught. He ended up selling it. At the time jumbos were fetching $4 a pound.
āI should have kept it and mounted it but I ended up selling it,ā he says in hindsight, although after the sale he did have second thoughts. āI actually changed my mind but when I went back it was sold.ā
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