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Restaurant Comes to Lobster's Rescue

1 day ago Restaurant Comes to Lobster's Rescue

 

 

The Associated Press

 

 

BETHLEHEM, N.H. - Monstro the 15-pound lobster didn't wind up on the menu.

 

 

The giant lobster caught 100 miles off the Massachusetts coast spent last month

in the lobster tank at Angelica's Restaurant in Bethlehem. He recently was

returned to the water, just off the southern tip of West Island, five miles from

New Bedford, Mass.

 

Fred Cunha, the restaurant owner, bought the 37-inch Monstro with his

15-inch-long claws from a New Bedford fishing boat in mid-October. Cunha

estimates Monstro is 50 years old.

 

Fifteen-pound lobsters are rare anywhere, but especially in the North Country.

 

Half the customers who weighed in on the subject wanted to eat Monstro; the

other half felt sorry for him.

 

After persistent lobbying from diners and his 7-year-old daughter Angelica,

Cunha decided to raffle off Monstro, with the winner deciding whether to send

him to the ocean or the cooking pot.

 

So Monstro lounged in the restaurant's tank with Mr. Crabby, Angelica's pet

2-pound lobster, feasting on minced crab and scallops. Cunha sold chances at $1

apiece until he reached Monstro's retail price of $150.

 

" She was really worried, " Cunha said of his daughter. " She really wanted him to

go free. "

 

Last Friday, Angelica drew the winning ticket. The winner, Claire Lupton of

Whitefield, doesn't eat lobster. She said a lobster that big and that old

shouldn't end up on a dinner plate.

 

The Monstro raffle was so successful that Cunha extended it to another lobster,

a 9-pounder who'd joined Monstro in the tank a couple of weeks ago. That lobster

was set free, too.

 

 

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always

glorify the hunter