One of the world's largest freshwater crayfish, known as Lobby, will be on show at City of Launceston council's Resilient City Symposium on Saturday.
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Lobby, who is about 23 years old and only half grown, will be used as a discussion point for the future of the world's largest freshwater invertebrate.
The council's environmental officer Kathryn Pugh said Lobby was pretty special.
"He is a threatened species. He is listed under both the state and federal legislation partly because of overfishing and partly because of habitat loss," she said.
"They're only found in the North of the state and they're the largest freshwater invertebrate in the world. We're really lucky to have them here."
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The freshwater lobsters live in the St Pats River and the Pipers River catchments.
Ms Pugh has never eaten one, but said with a diet of rotting logs could not imagine they are tasty. It is illegal to catch them, and in recent weeks there have been fines of $8000 dished out for doing so.
The event starts at 10.30am and runs until 3.30pm at QVMAG at Inveresk.
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