That's a lotta lobster

By Tina Comeau

SOU'WESTER

Usually West Pubnico lobster fisherman Jeff d’Entremont and his crew will stick a rubber lobster band around the claws of the lobster they catch.

But one lobster the resident of southwestern Nova Scotia recently pulled aboard his vessel ‘On the Move’ was so big the crew had to improvise with black electrical tape around the crusher claw.

“It was the only thing that we could get around it,” d’Entremont laughs.

The lobster d’Entremont 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, d’Entremont says, “I don’t know what to tell you. We just said, ‘Oh my God.’”

D’Entremont was fishing about 58 miles offshore from the Dennis Point Wharf the day he caught the lobster. He ended up selling it. At the time jumbos were fetching $4 a pound.

“I should have kept it and mounted it but I ended up selling it,” he says, in hindsight, although after the sale he did have second thoughts. “I actually changed my mind but when I went back it was sold.”