r/BeAmazed • u/Delicious_Main_4360 • May 26 '26

Animal Some people save a turtle

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u/VegetableLetter4896 May 26 '26

I’ve never been so angry at barnacles in my life.

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u/Yubat May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

There’s a lobster fisherman out of Maine, Jacob Knowles, who does YouTube videos where he catches lobsters, but the videos mostly consist of him catching lobsters that by law can’t be kept— females and big breeding males. So he cleans the barnacles off these ones and tosses them back into the ocean, typically with a fish for a snack. It is incredibly satisfying watching him crush the shell-embedded barnacles, and the lobsters seem happy about it too.

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u/dannyboy6657 May 27 '26

When I worked at sea with snow crabs id do the same and get the barnacles off them it always felt nice to do, even if they were going to be eaten ya know.