It was on Wednesday morning that the giant lobster was pulled up on Johnny Andersson's fishing boat about 15 nautical miles outside Läjets fishing port. Having never seen such a large lobster, he contacted the local fish shop to let them have a look at the best.

- I thought they might want it as decoration or something, says Johnny.

The fishmonger Patrik Ingemarsson was one of those who received when Johnny came into the store with his big catch.

- My first thought was that it was incredibly large and that it must be very old, he says.

Back in the sea

Patrik Ingemarsson made sure that the catch was photographed, weighed in and documented.

- Since it has been in the sea for so long, it was not talked about boiling it, but it is going back to the sea. We, who are fishermen and fishmongers, want to protect the lobster stock and a lobster that is this big reproduces very well, says Patrik Ingemarsson.

Is this a record-sized lobster?

- It's a record-breaking lobster for the harbor. All times, Rosanna Ingemarsson fishmonger at Läjets Fisk.

The lobster is now marked so that you can have some opportunity to follow it now that it is back in the sea.