buckbuster11 Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 No Butter for Bubba, the 22-Pound Lobster 42 minutes ago Top Stories - AP By MIKE CRISSEY, Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH - He could be older than Warner Bros. studio, General Motors and the Boy Scouts. He could have survived two world wars and Prohibition. He could have been dinner. AP Photo He's Bubba, a 22-pound leviathan of a lobster pulled from the waters off Nantucket, Mass., and shipped to a Pittsburgh fish market. "It is overwhelming," owner Bob Wholey said. "If you see it, you will never forget it. Customers are just in awe." On Tuesday, Wholey gave the lobster to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, which will send him to an aquarium at a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum. Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach eating size — about five to seven years to grow to a pound — Bubba may be 100 years old. That would make the crustacean older than Warner Bros. (1907), the Boy Scouts (1910) and the states of Arizona and New Mexico (1912), not to mention the first commercial radio station (1920), television (1927) and computers (1943). People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent Wholey a letter asking him to work with the group to release Bubba back in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine. Another group calling itself People For Eating Tasty Animals reportedly offered Wholey a hefty price for the lobster. At Tuesday's price of $14.98 a pound, Bubba would retail for about $350. Bob Bayer, executive director of the University of Maine's Lobster Institute, is skeptical and estimates that Bubba is likely 50 years old, but doesn't know for sure. Warm water and plenty of food may have more to do with a lobster's size than how long it's been alive. "We have looked at all kinds of things to figure out if there is any way to age a lobster. I'm guessing 100 years is probably too high but I can't argue with it because you don't know," Bayer said. No matter his age, Bubba dwarfs a typical 1 1/2-pound lobster. He's about three feet long and took up about half a 4-foot-by-4-foot tank at Wholey's Market. A lobster sharing his tank was about as big as one of Bubba's claws. A handful of people who wandered by the tank Tuesday were impressed. One woman quietly said, "Wow," while a man said, "He's serious." Although his business is to sell seafood, Wholey says Bubba was never bound to be boiled and buttered. And he's become a little philosophical after seeing the lobster, which could be twice his 54 years. "I don't think you could eat something that big. ... What range of emotions does a lobster have? Greed? Lust? Love? I'm just going to give him to the zoo and hope he lives another 100 years," Wholey said. "If you sat down and ate this thing, wouldn't that be a bit shellfish?" ___ On the Net: University of Maine's Lobster Institute: http://www.lobsterinstitute.org/ Wholey's: http://www.wholey.com/ Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium: http://www.pittsburghzoo.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster Yum yum yum! lol! I saw in TV one time a huge lobster, could be the same one. All I can say is wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NS whitetail Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster we caught one last spring that weighed 18 pounds the biggest one I have ever seen, weighed 27 pounds. It was caught here off of Nova Scotia and was on display at a Fishermans Expo this one weighed 15 pounds, the crate he is sitting on is 36 " long and his tail is curled up ; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster I may have to lease the entire state of Wisconsin for the butter but....A Mans Got To Do What A Mans Got To Do Pass The Butter and a really big pair of pliers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntn4bucks Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster Here's a pic. The little one next to him is suppose to be about 1 1/2 pounds!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster That is an old lobster. Did not realize they lived that long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_lou Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster WOW, that is one big piece of meat. I say put him back in the ocean. Let him live out his days. Of course I am not a fan of eating lobster. Would eating him be the equivelant of eating a 9 year old swamp buck? You know, tenderize it with a jack-hammer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitrrophybowhunter Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster Holy cow. I would have been selling him LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonhunter Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster [ QUOTE ] It would take me about as long as it takes 30 gallons of water to boil to make up my mind on what to do with that [/ QUOTE ] Ditto People eating tasty animals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster WOW! Now that's a lobster!! Ranger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster I was telling Lewis a while ago, about the 20+ pound lobsters my Grandfather used to get on the east coast, when I was a kid. I used to go out with him all the time to pull the traps and there were plenty of big ones back then (late 50's / early 60's). I remember Grandpa bringing one monster home for the whole crowd to eat for supper one time. One lobster fed 13 people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster Did Lewis catch it? He caught a monster last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
va_strutstopper Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster that thing is huge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archerjg Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster I saw that on the news. That is a huge lobster, they put it on a table with a lobster you would get in a restaurant and it dwarfed it. Archerjg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjones Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster man that sounds good!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster WOW! that thing is HUGE!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 Re: Monster Lobster Bubba bought the ranch last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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