In December 2013, U.S. diver Joseph Ali caught an 18-pound lobster in the coastal waters of Huntington Beach, Southern California, causing his family to worry because they didn't have a pot big enough to cook it. .

Joseph Ali, 27, is an experienced diver. He said the 18-pound lobster was the largest he had caught so far. He said, "It was a real trophy for me. When I grabbed the lobster, it crawled right up to my face, wrapped itself around my body and took off my mask. At that point, instead of using my hands I wrapped my body around it and eventually swam to shore with it in my arms." Ali and his family plan to cook the prawn and invite friends to share the feast.

The Livonia Department of Fish and Wildlife described the lobster, which Ali caught, as usually living to be more than 50 years old, with the largest lobster ever caught in local records weighing 26 pounds and measuring 3 feet (about 1 meter) long. U.S. law allows lobsters to be caught off the Southern California coast using ring nets or by hand with authorization from the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

According to foreign media reports on June 27, 2013, British fishermen caught a rare giant lobster with a pair of giant pincers and a body length of about 0.76 meters in the waters off Dorset, England. Its age is estimated to be at least 60 years old.

Because the lobster is so large and old, local fishermen say it is no longer suitable for cooking. So the lobster will be sent to a nearby aquarium for care and is expected to be released back into the sea this September.

Local fishermen say they have been catching lobsters for several years and have rarely seen one of this size. The fishermen also laughed and said, "It is because of its large size that it is not suitable for cooking, so this lobster is saving its own life."

Lobster weight is normally proportional to its price, but because lobster meat above a certain weight tastes less flavorful, particularly large lobsters are not popular in restaurants.

In July 2015, a large lobster in a restaurant in Long Island, New York, attracted a lot of curiosity-seekers, according to the restaurant owner, the lobster weighed 25 pounds (about 22 kilograms), and some biologists, after viewing pictures of the lobster, pointed out that, based on the lobster's size and weight, it could be estimated that it was about 95 years old. In September 2014, a hermaphrodite lobster appeared in Atsushima, Toba City, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Its left half of its body was reddish-brown and its right half was black. Unfortunately, the shrimp was dead, and its feet and tail, among other things, had been eaten by its own kind.

The Mie Prefectural Fisheries Research Institute said the phenomenon is rare and is due to a mismatch of genetic information in the fertilized egg. "It's very rare, and this is the second time I've seen this kind of lobster," said a researcher at the institute who has been involved in lobster multiplication technology development for 23 years. "It is possible that this phenomenon occurs as a result of the interlacing of genetic information that determines male and female and body color when a fertilized egg divides into 2 cells. According to the British "Daily Mail" reported on July 7, 201, Pine Point Fishing Boat Company (Pine Point Fisherman\s Co-Op) in Scarborough, Maine, U.S., last week received a very peculiar two-color lobster, in nature, the probability of the appearance of such a lobster is only 1/50 million.

The bicolored lobster was reported to have one side of its body differently colored from the other. This captured lobster compared with the ordinary bicolor lobster color distribution is more special, from the tail it is the beginning of the color to distinguish, one side is orange, one side is brown, but the head is completely brown. In addition, the bicolor lobster is usually a hermaphrodite, but this lobster is a female lobster. Employees of the fishing company claimed not to know exactly which fisherman caught the lobster. Currently, they plan to give the lobster to a Maine museum or aquarium for research or exhibit use.