一只死于压力的龙虾
A giant lobster, saved from the cooking pot by a fishmonger, has died of stress after being exhibited at an aquarium.
Lucky, estimated to be aged around 40, was caught off the Gower Peninsula coastline by a fisherman earlier this week. He was put in the Silent Night Aquarium, in Tenby, instead of the cooking pot but was discovered dead in his new tank. Crowds had gathered at Swansea Market, in south Wales, when Lucky the lobster, who was two feet long and weighed in at 7lbs, appeared on a fish stall.
But fishmonger Christopher Thomas, 20, was so taken with the colossal crustacean he refused to sell and had it transferred to an aquarium instead. Aquarium assistant Mike Batt said: "I could see he was dead the moment he arrived because the water was murky. "To be honest I did not hold out much hope it would survive because it appeared to be ill when it arrived. "We pumped in oxygen to the area around its gills but I think the stress of the last few days was simply too much and it died."
一只年龄大约在40岁左右的大龙虾在英国高尔半岛海岸被一名渔夫捕获，幸运的是，它的新主人并没有把它直接放进蒸煮罐里享受美味，而是把它放在一个水桶里，并在几天后送往水族馆。可是，不幸的是，当这只两英尺长、7磅重的巨型龙虾刚刚被送到水族馆后，它就死了。“老实说，我对它能活下去不抱任何希望，因为它看上去生病了。我们在它的腮部周围区域用压力泵为它输氧，但我想，它在前两天所受的压力实在是太大了，它支持不住，所以死了。”龙虾被捉后，许多人都前往鱼市场观看这只异物，可能正是因为没见过这么多人，龙虾一下子被吓着了。
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