Operation Lobster Rescue…how too guide required

If it’s a lobster, it’ll have been caught in a pot tended to by a wee one man fishing launch and probably from a a small local harbour (if Fife). Not an indiscriminate factory trawler hoovering up the sea.

It’s precisely the sort of environmentally sustainable fishing method we should be championing.

while I’m fully supportive of someone spending their own money to rescue a lobster if it makes them feel good, +1 to this basically! I get one occasionally as a treat from a local fisherman. Sustainable, not factory farmed, free range, about as minimal food-miles as you can possibly get – what’s not to like? Also, dunno where the poster above got £35 minimum from! These are £12-£15 for a smaller one big enough for 2 people. So no more than a couple of decent bits of steak really. £35 would be a monster! (He did once catch a behemoth that he was selling for £50, very large which apparently means very old as they never stop growing – no-one bought it & he didn’t have the heart to eat the old boy so he threw it back in 😃)

So this has nothing to do with Jane Mansfield?

No-one had the upper hand.

I rather applaud the notion, effort and expense involved. It’s ridiculous, but in a good way. I hope you manage it and the lobster lives to be 80 years old. Sometimes you just get a break and it sounds like this lobster is lucky to have attracted your attention.

appear on Saving Lives at Sea a few months later, having been swept out into the stormy sea while inexplicably clutching a bicycle and holding an angry lobster attempting to snip bits off your face.

This made me lol. 😆

slippery concrete pipe box of death

Is that an official Strava segment?

My memory is not great, but I was once told that Mick Hucknall from the pop band “Simply Red”… once purchased all the lobsters in a fancy Swiss restaurant, the whole tank of them, every last one of them, and in the style of “Schindler’s List” he set them free.

Sounds like a really nice thing to do doesn’t it.

However, Switzerland is not known for its coastline. They all died in the Lake Geneva.

So… don’t do that with your lobster.

in the style of “Schindler’s List” he set them free.

he put them on a train?

For every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/892851.stm

For every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/892851.stm

From that link:

A rare albino lobster that was stolen from an aquarium in Newquay has probably been eaten at a beach barbecue.
Albino lobsters are very rare because their lack of camouflage makes them an easy target for predators…….. “I am really upset. He was a real star at the aquarium. He has been a great educational aid as we took him to schools and showed him to children,” Mr Thomson said.
Albino lobsters do not usually survive for very long in the wild.

“Because of their colour they tend to get picked off by predators and attacked by other lobsters,” Mr Thomson said.

Obviously albino lobsters don’t survive long in captivity because their colouring makes them vulnerable to hungry predators.

This has thread of the week written all over it.
I’m completely gripped but not sure whose side I’m on? Rocky the rock lobster cos he rhymes with my username, or the plucky fife fisherman in his boat who is going to be out out of business as the market turns up 1000% and the factory fishers come in.
Also someone is going to have to explain the Jayne Mansfield thing to me…

Also someone is going to have to explain the Jayne Mansfield thing to me…

Derek and Clive = the worst job ever

Very NSFW IIRC

Aha.

Once you’ve done a ‘dry run’ as it were with this one, can I recommend you head to Scalpay (or similar).  Check out https://scalpayshellfish.co.uk/, I think from memory they sell direct to the public on Wednesday evenings in the summer, so get yourself there for about 6pm, buy everything they’ve caught and tip it straight back into The Minch.

I think from memory they sell direct to the public on Wednesday evenings in the summer, so get yourself there for about 6pm, buy everything they’ve caught and tip it straight back into The Minch.

Video yourself doing this then go back and play them the video.

Do we have an update on Clampy’s bid for freedom? Here’s hoping that Clampy is on his/her way back to the sea without a Jayne Mansfield-esque diversion.

Plenty lobsters pots on the beaches round here

Hmm… I think I can guess a later episode of this story. For the lobster.

Saving the lobster isn’t going to save you !

Maybe. God is a Lobster.

Maybe. God is a Lobster

Not a DJ?

So any update OP? Or was there a claw-to-finger situation that’s preventing you from typing anything?

You want to save a lobster that was foolish enough to be caught in the first place, then return it to breed more foolish lobsters. Fishing and consuming is increasing the intelligence of these crustaceans. You therefore must consume the said crustacean to avoid dumbing down the global population.

Wald would be proud of that logic.

You want to save a lobster that was foolish enough to be caught in the first place, then return it to breed more foolish lobsters. Fishing and consuming is increasing the intelligence of these crustaceans. You therefore must consume the said crustacean to avoid dumbing down the global population.

Wald would be proud of that logic.

He could be part of an undercover operation?

tip it straight back into The Minch.

Derek will just have to retrieve them again

I think you’re confusing Minch and minge.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/23/two-buddhists-fined-15000-releasing-non-native-crustaceans-sea-brighton

You need to be sure it’s a native lobster Homarus gammarus and not Homarus americanus or you will be introducing a non native species to our waters. American lobsters are more aggressive than native lobsters and push them out of their territory.

So update…

I staked out the best place for release at low tide. Next day I went to pick him up and there were about 5 of them in the tank. No idea which one he was, they all look the same to me. So I’m going back over weekend and I’ll just take whichever they give me

That’s said, they are mean looking things aren’t they… give me the heebie jeebies..

No idea which one he was

I thought you said in your original post that he/she looked all shagged out and pining for the fjords or sumfink?

Does the new intake look equally shagged out?

Someone should put a stop to this sort of thing.

Edit: Perhaps the original one has been eaten and there are now 5 new ones?

That’s said, they are mean looking things aren’t they… give me the heebie jeebies..

tasty with garlic butter though…

not sure i could bring myself to cook a live one though – that said the same can be said about sheep etc.

Now as I was striding out in the countryside today I saw this field of sheep…

they all look the same to me…

Racist! 🤣

So I’m going back over weekend and I’ll just take whichever they give me

Poor Clampy. He was a shoe in for freedom,  now his chances have reduced to about 20%. Can you start a go-fund-me so we can liberate them all?

not sure i could bring myself to cook a live one though – that said the same can be said about sheep

FFS don’t tell me that some people cook sheep live?

What is wrong with people?

Poor Clampy. He was a shoe in for freedom, now his chances have reduced to about 20%.

Or he’s already gone in the pot.

You need to be sure it’s a native lobster Homarus gammarus and not Homarus americanus or you will be introducing a non native species to our waters. American lobsters are more aggressive than native lobsters and push them out of their territory.

I know this thread is a bit jokey, but you do need to be sure they’re a native species…have you checked that they’re locally caught?

#tpbiker Please don’t do this. There is a possibility that live lobsters for sale are actually American lobsters – a different species to the lobsters in our seas.
American lobsters can have a parasite that is not found in our lobsters, and releasing an infected American lobsters could be devastating.
So if you care about wildlife,please don’t release this lobsters into the sea.

What is there to stop the planktonic larvae of lobsters from the United States traveling over to the United Kingdom?

Presumably there are ocean currents which can facilitate this?

Genuine question btw.

What is there to stop the planktonic larvae of lobsters from the United States traveling over to the United Kingdom?

Blue passports.

What is there to stop the planktonic larvae of lobsters from the United States traveling over to the United Kingdom?

Presumably there are ocean currents which can facilitate this?

Genuine question btw.

They’re not truly planktonic. They are larger than most zooplankton and can control where they swim.

They are a third of an inch apparently, not enough to be carried by ocean currents?

Been following this with amused interest. More so now that we don’t know if Clampy has been eaten or just got new mates 🤣

Obviously you just need to buy 5 to release now (assuming they’re not American as above)! The fish monger will surely be delighted in the up turn in lobster trading despite these times if austerity, and have a whole lot more for you next time you pass.

Waiting with baited breath (or pot) 😁

I don’t know what sparked the memory of this thread off in my mind,  but I see we never did reach the denouement of this epic tale of one MTBer and his quest for crustacean liberation.

@tpbiker did Clampy gain his freedom, or was this a project doomed to failure?

did Clampy gain his freedom, or was this a project doomed to failure

and did you ever get to ride that lovely 853 steel bike

To the OP:

Are you a vegetarian?