Giant shrimp captured in Florida and here are the photos to prove it. A fisherman has caught a giant shrimp measuring 18 inches long near Fort Pierce. Pictures of the giant shrimp were posted on The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Facebook page and they have gone viral. Scientists believe that the jumbo creature is a scaly-tailed mantis shrimp.
Giant shrimp captured by a Florida fisherman will make some hungry or angry.
A Florida fisherman will be feasting on pasta and shrimp, grilled shrimp or even jumbo shrimp scampi after making the catch of a lifetime.
Last night, a fisherman from the Sunshine State by the name of Steve Bargeron was sitting on Fort Pierce in St. Lucie County, hoping to reel in few fish.
That is when he spotted another fisherman hooking in a giant shrimp. Bargeron was so impressed by the huge shrimp that he asked the unnamed fisherman if he could take few pictures of it.
The mysterious fisherman accepted, and Bargeron snapped three photographs of the enormous shrimp and posted them on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s official Facebook page.
The pictures of the giant shrimp captured by nameless fisherman have gone viral with over 3000 Likes and hundreds of comments.
In the snapshots, the fisherman can be seen holding the shrimp by its tail like a lobster.
According to Bargeron, the jumbo creature measured at least 18 inches long. Experts who have seen the pictures believe that it is a scaly-tailed mantis shrimp, which is not really a shrimp but a crustacean or stomatopod.
The scaly-tailed mantis shrimp known as lysiosquilla scabricauda can grow 30 cm long (about 11 inches) or more and are mainly found in the Atlantic Ocean.
The mantis shrimp was most likely hunting for food when it was captured by the lucky fisherman on Thursday night. The giant shrimp captured by a Florida fisherman has many asking themselves, why aren’t they that lucky when they go fishing at night?
Few called it the Loch Ness monster, but others are not laughing at the story.
A handfull of animal lovers are blasting the fisherman by saying that if the mantis shrimp was able to survive in the ocean and get that big, why didn’t he do the responsible thing and throw it back in the water?
