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On 6 November 2015, a Facebook user shared an image of a man holding a gigantic shrimp, along with the caption identifying the image as depicting a 102 pound shrimp from Homosassa Florida: That same image had previously appeared over a month earlier on a Spanish-language web site, a rough translation of which placed the implausible catch in Spain: Google had yet another locale for the well-traveled fish, as a reverse image search automatically suggested Queensland as the site of the photograph (as discussed in an August 2015 forum thread). A separate search by image showed that the photograph was originally uploaded in 2010, and it could have been taken (or altered) far earlier. The 2010 result led to a dead link, but the picture was hosted on a web site for a fishing club in the Florida Keys (presumably, a catch of that nature would have warranted a mention by avid sport fishermen). On 4 September 2014, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission published a status update to Facebook reporting the capture of a large, shrimp-like creature measuring 18 inches long: Those photographs didn't match the circulating 102 lb. shrimp image, and the crustacean depicted wasn't technically a shrimp. The documented catch occurred in the Indian River near Fort Pierce, Florida, for which no weight information was provided. Professor of integrative biology Roy Caldwell told LiveScience that the 2014 find was unlikely to have occurred as described, and that photography was an unreliable barometer of mantis shrimp size:
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