As I've mentioned, I'm from New England. I'm not only of those Mayflower types, far from it, but I do identify as a New Englander. A lot of people are really enamored of lobster and are willing to pay crazy prices for it. Well, due to the recession and what I understand to be a glut of lobster this past year, I saw most places selling lobster at $3.99/lb and one place at $2.99/lb. Unfortunately, I don't really care much for crustaceans. They're pretty good, but kind of a weird texture in all the species I've tried.
Anyway, the post about "how many animals a vegetarian saves" got me thinking about lobster. In the link I posted, it mentions the largest lobster ever caught. According to some sources, lobsters have the potential to live, if not indefinitely under ideal conditions, certainly for a very, very long time. Though the lobster in the linked article was impossible to attribute an age to, just imagine how much longer a lobster would have to live to achieve the size of the largest lobster on record, which according to [The Lobster Institute] is as follows:
3 ½ feet! As much as I enjoy eating meat and seafood, it does pain me to understand that human predation and consumption is the major contributor to the decline in flora and fauna world wide.