It is rare to catch a lobster off the coast of California that weighs more than three pounds, so when biologist, Forrest Galante, caught this 12 pound 70-year-old crustacean he took it home to show his family
By Leon Siciliano, video source Barcroft
11:49AM GMT 03 Dec 2014
A biologist caught a huge 70-year-old lobster that could be one of the biggest catches of the year.
Forrest Galante, 26 was free-diving close to Anacapa Island off the Californian coast when he found the huge crustacean that weighed close to 12 pounds.
A Pacific Spiny lobster of this size would have been common decades ago but overfishing has meant that they now rarely exceed three pounds in weight.
Forrest, who caught the lobster on October 6, 2014, said: “I’ve been doing this for ten years and I’ve never seen a lobster as big as Albert Girther – which is his name.
“I mean any lobster that can bear hug a man must be pretty huge and he had no problem with that.
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