Kudos to the Canadian vegan who forked over $230 to the Alma Lobster Shop in southern New Brunswick, Canada, in order to liberate “King Louie,” a massive 23-pound lobster that was caught by a fisherman. Catherine MacDonald, the shop’s co-owner says the four foot long crustacean was likely a century old.

“It’s beautiful,” MacDonald said. “For a lobster to be 23 pounds and to be that large, there was nothing else that was going to be a predator – except man.” “This is a big, big lobster,” added MacDonald. And as of Tuesday, the big, big old guy was back home in the bay. “It went full circle,” she said. “It was released on a vessel out in the Bay of Fundy in front of the village.”

Somewhere in the cool depths of Canada’s Bay of Fundy, a gigantic lobster nicknamed “King Louie” is breathing a huge sigh of relief. On a fishing vessel similar to the one that picked him up, the King was returned to his underwater throne. King Louie is free. Long live the King!