Spared Lobster Could Have Been Country's Biggest

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DARTMOUTH fisherman Simon Sharp and his wife Lizzy were shocked last week to see a huge female lobster tangled in their gill net - a net they set on muddy ground to catch Dover sole and a place that lobsters normally avoid.

Mr Sharp said: "It was a great big barnacled old thing and it wasn't tangled too much in the net. We thought about taking it back and looking for one of the big aquariums to take it, but it looked very sluggish, so we V-notched its tail, so that from now on it would be illegal for anyone to take it.

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Spared Lobster Could Have Been Country's Biggest

"We put it back on the same spot, just out from the mouth of the River Dart, and to th...

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