 Thirty-pound lobster
1970s
Photographer: unknown
Lobsters can live as long as 50 years and can grow
to 40 pounds.
Large lobsters like this 30-pounder were once common.
Such lobsters
are rare today because lobsters in the Gulf of Maine are harvested right
around the time they reach sexual maturity, when they weigh a little
more than one pound – smaller than one claw of this monster.
The man holding the 30-pounder is Charles Wheeler, a biologist who served
as the first director of the Woods Hole Science Aquarium when it opened
in the current building in 1962.
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