The oyster is as big as a basket

A fisherman discovered an oyster with a width of 18 cm and weighed nearly 1.4 kg at the port of Plymouth, England. It is believed that this is the largest oyster in the land of fog.

An employee of Mevagissey Marine Park measured the size of the oyster.Photo: Telegraph.

Peter Randall - a 58-year-old fish vendor from the fishing village of Mevagissey, Cornwall - bought an oyster in Plymouth port city on May 11. 'I bought a box of many kinds of seafood and this oyster was at the bottom of the box. I have never seen a big oyster like that. Surely he has lived for many years so I feel ashamed to kill him. So I called the Plymouth port manager. He said I should take him to a marine park , ' Randall said.

Douglas Herdson, a biologist, said: 'These big oysters are very rare. A female of the same size is capable of laying more than three million eggs . " At Randall's oyster now lives in the ocean center of Mevagissey village.

A 12.5-kilogram oyster was found in Devon in 1929. Previously, a 0.8-kilogram weight was found in Scotland in 1997. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest oyster in the world. has a mass of 3.6 kg and is 30.5 x 14 cm in size. It lived in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia state, and was discovered in 1999.