No Such Thing As A Lobster War
No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
4.7 • 18.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Live from Perth, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the most annoying man in history, the regretful inventor of the Australian labradoodle, and how lobsters nearly started a war.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not going to be a part of this. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm not going to be a part of this. |
| 0:18.4 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast. |
| 0:26.1 | This week coming to you live from Perth Australia. |
| 0:35.8 | My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Andrew Hunter Murray, James |
| 0:43.2 | Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from |
| 0:47.8 | the last seven days and in no particular order. Here we go starting with you Chazinski. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah my fact this week is that in the 1960s Brazil and France almost went to war with each other |
| 1:00.8 | over whether Lobsters crawl or swim. |
| 1:05.9 | What a just war it would have been. |
| 1:09.6 | Who's side of you on? Who's side are you on? |
| 1:12.8 | I think they crawl. I think they swim. Yeah I will see you on the battlefield. |
| 1:18.7 | I assume they do both right? |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah the classic sweatsiland corner. |
| 1:25.4 | No so it is a problem that they do both because this is the fact that in 1961 a French fisherman |
| 1:32.3 | found the water off the coast of Brazil was full of Lobsters and they wanted to fish them so |
| 1:37.4 | they could get money from selling the Lobsters and so they side fishing them but Brazil claimed |
| 1:42.7 | exclusive rights to sea creatures that were walking along the continental shelf within a |
| 1:48.6 | certain like diameter radius of Brazil. So if creatures were walking in that area then Brazil had |
| 1:55.6 | a right to them and no one else did but if they were swimming in that area then they did not so this |
| 2:00.4 | huge argument came forward about what they were walking or swimming and the French said that they |
| 2:06.1 | were swimming so they were open to anyone because Lobsters do sometimes swim and so they said we're |
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