We remember the massive oyster – 2.2 kg – caught at Alain Morvan’s oyster farm, at Carantec (Finistère) in October 2020. It exceeded the weight of the record recorded by the Guinness Book of Records: a 1.62 kg mollusk caught in 2013 in Denmark.
Off the coast of this same city, the company Les Huîtres de Pen al Lann claims to have overtaken this mastodon by harvesting an oyster, “Dredged in mid-December” 2021, of 2.22 kg. Record beaten to within a few grams! Even if nothing has been officially approved.
More than 26 cm in length
According to Gireg Berder, manager of the company Les Huîtres de Pen al Lann, in Carantec (Finistère), by whom the specimen was collected, the latter measures 26.5 cm long, 13 cm wide, 10 cm thick. .
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The mollusk measures over 26cm in length. © DR
As the company raises its oysters to the ground, it is surely a forgotten oyster “Who may have burrowed into the sand, in a corner of the oyster farm that has not been worked”. Gireg Berder estimates that it was sown in 2006. Which would make the oyster a beautiful 15 year old baby.
Even of this size, the mollusc remains edible, confirms the oyster farmer. It was also sold to a client of the operation.
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