An incredibly huge brown crab was saved from the dinner table by a fish merchant who thought it would be better to put the giant-clawed crustacean on display at an aquarium.

A fisherman caught the giant crab off the coast of Portsmouth, U.K., and when he turned in his catch, a staff member at Viviers fish merchants asked the Blue Reef Aquarium Portsmouth if it wanted to save the unusually large sea creature.

“For an edible crab he is pretty sizeable,” Rob Davidson of the Blue Reef Aquarium told The News in Portsmouth. “They can actually get a tiny bit bigger than this, according to most records, but I have never seen one this large.”

The 10-year-old brown crab weighs over nine pounds and stretches an impressive 21.6 inches from claw to claw. Most extraordinary are the massive claws that are said to have the crushing strength of over 90 pounds per square inch compared to the average human hand of 25 pounds per square inch.