Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Perth, Australia.
My name is Dan Schreiber, and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go, starting with you, Chazinski.
Yeah, my fact this week is that in the 1960s,
Brazil and France almost went to war with each other over whether lobsters crawl or swim.
What a just war it would have been.
Who's side are you on?
Who's side are you on?
I think they crawl.
I think they swim.
Yeah, I will see you on the battlefield.
OK, I assume they do both, right?
The classic Switzerland in the corner.
No,
so it is a problem that they do both
because this is so this is the fact that in 1961 a French fisherman found the water off the coast of Brazil was full of lobsters and they wanted to fish them so they could get money from selling the lobsters.
And so they started fishing them.
But Brazil claimed exclusive rights to sea creatures that were walking along the continental shelf within a certain like diameter or radius of Brazil.