This is a nice little challenge for the best oyster openers. Perhaps a move to try for Marcel Lesoille? This master shucker has set several world records, including the time he opened 2,064 oysters in an hour while blindfolded. But would he be able to open a creature weighing more than two kilos? This monster was caught on October 18 during high tides. According to our colleagues at The Armor Pressit is in the Trieux estuary, very close to the famous island of Bréhat (Côtes-d’Armor) that the giant oyster weighing 2,050 kg was collected by a fisherman on foot.
The fisherman’s son explained to our colleagues that his father was going to collect some scallops and oysters when he discovered the mastodon. Supporting photo, the Breton fisherman shows the weighing which is formal. The shell collected in the estuary weighs more than two kilos. Does this constitute a world record? A priori, no, even if it is complicated to establish a real classification. Indeed, should we remember the weight or the size of a shell to know which is the biggest?
Other records here and there…
Last year, a 2,360 kg oyster was discovered in the Camargue. In 2015, a 2.075 gram oyster was caught during the “tide of the century” off the Channel Islands. And in 2014, another specimen weighing more than two kilos was caught in the Rance, in Ille-et-Vilaine.
