Lobster Found ‘Labelled’ With The Pepsi Logo

After a hilarious report of Atlantic Salmon breaking free here’s another one. According to CBC News, a lobster was found with a Pepsi logo imprinted on its claw at New Brunswick in Canada. The crustacean was found by a local woman, Karissa Lindstrand while banding lobster claws on her boat last week.

The Picture Of The Claw Sparks Debate

“I can’t say how he got it on,” Lindstrand, who has been fishing lobster for four years, said of the red, white and blue marking. “It seemed more like a tattoo or a drawing on the lobster rather than something growing into it.” Here’s the tweet where you can see the ‘labelled’ claw of the lobster.

"It seemed more like a tattoo or a drawing on the lobster rather than something growing into it." https://t.co/3MCNQ42xIo

— LophiusPat (@LophiusPat) November 29, 2017

Linstrand reportedly took a picture of the claw which started the debate on how the label got there. Some have speculated that the lobster happened to grow close to a Pepsi can thrown away on the ocean floor or some discarded box had got affixed to his claw.

Environmental Concerns

Needless to say, that along with the debate, the second thought that crossed the people’s mind was the amount of debris and plastic collected by the ocean. According to environmental advocacy group Plastic Oceans, 300 million tons of plastic is produced every year and out of this more than 8 million tons is trashed into the oceans in the world.

“Where [the lobster] was living, there was garbage infiltrating even into the deep water,” said Matthew Abbott, a marine program co-ordinator at the Conservation Council of New Brunswick told CBC News. While some are looking for a solution for the reuse of plastic, the issue of dumping it in the ocean is still a big issue.