The attention Larry garnered may also put an end to the restaurant's recent decision to order bigger and bigger shellfish from its seafood purveyors.

Oceana managing partner Paul McLaughlin agreed to voluntarily send Larry back to Maine's coastal waters. The restaurant also received a couple dozen phone calls and e-mails. One respondent even offered to buy Larry's entire tank for the purpose of releasing him. In his column, Sutton claims that the thought of eating another living creature 'probably born before World War II' led him to wonder why he's never considered the age or history of any other meat he's eaten: 'There's something humbling about consuming flesh from an animal that's given its life, involuntarily, for me, the diner.'Īfter Sutton's story was published, readers sent in e-mails suggesting that a 'freedom fund' be set up for Larry. Larry's age was determined by his weight he clocks in at 11 pounds.

The name 'Larry' was given to him by Sutton's editor. reports that the campaign to save Larry the Lobster began about a week ago when Ryan Sutton, a reporter who covers restaurants for the Bloomberg news service, penned a column about the senior crustacean, who lives in his own tank at Oceana in Rockefeller Center.

A lobster in his 70s, seemingly destined to wind up as dinner, will be liberated from a New York City restaurant and allowed to live out the rest of his natural life back in the ocean.

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