One of the largest oysters in the world discovered in Brittany

Illustration of an oyster farmer opening an oyster, here in Brittany.

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It is a 2.2 kg monster that had been hiding there for fifteen, even twenty years.

In Carantec, in Finistère, the son of an oyster farmer caught a giant oyster on Saturday in a park in the estuary of the Penzé river.

According to the fishing professional, the oyster could have fallen from a spat pocket about twenty years ago, reports

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However, the shell will not be eaten.

The family of oyster farmers would like to study the possibility of making this mastodon a robust parent, capable of withstanding all winds and tides for decades.

No one will eat it

Alain Morvan entrusted the measurements of the mollusk to our colleagues: 22 cm in length, 14 cm in width and a thickness of 11 cm.

A record?

Not impossible.

According to the oyster farmer, the oyster would be as heavy as that listed in the Guinness Book.

But it weighs 400 grams less than the one caught two years ago in Crozon.

The record could be set on the length of the specimen.

For now, the largest known oyster in the world seems to be the one fished by a family of Luxembourgers in 2015 at Zwin, a former arm of the sea located on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium.

A monster was also brought up in 2014 in the Rance.

The specimen displayed 2 kg on the scale for a length of 35 cm.

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