Grandfather lobster

A lobster is drawing the crowds in the northern Algerian coastal town of Jijel after a local fisherman landed an unusually elderly catch.

Abdelkader, who goes by one name, netted the sexagenarian shellfish and six others who the fisherman estimates have accumulated, at a pinch, 300 years between them.

The age of the veteran crustaceans was determined by their weight, according to the standard formula of 100 grams per year.

Abdelkader caught the 62-year-old senior shellfish, who he named grandfather, at a depth of 300 metres with two 59-year olds, dubbed grandmother and uncle, mum and dad aged 48 and 46 and two young nippers.

Abdelkader proudly displayed his haul to the public in a tank, but warned that anyone wanting to buy the 36 kilograms of seafood would have to shell out 120,000 dinars