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A 14-year-old girl from Maine had a great morning at sea when she pulled up something she's never caught before -– a rare blue lobster. Check out these rare lobsters: Meghan LaPlante's catch ...
He said that's thought to be as rare as 1 in 50 million. Rare lobsters have been in the news lately, with an orange lobster turning up in a Long Island, New York, Stop & Shop last month, and another appearing in a shipment being delivered to a Red Lobster in Colorado in July.
Blue lobster may refer to either: Procambarus alleni, a blue crayfish commonly called a blue lobster; Cherax quadricarinatus, another blue crayfish, common in aquaria; Homarus gammarus, the European or common lobster, which is blue while alive (but becomes red when cooked) A mutated form of the American lobster
The protein and a red carotenoid molecule known as astaxanthin combine to form a blue complex known as crustacyanin, giving the lobster its blue color. [24] While an estimated 1 in 2 million lobsters are blue, they may not be as rare as they are portrayed given how many lobsters are caught in a given year.
On this European lobster, the right claw (on the left side of the image) is the crusher and the left claw is the cutter.. Homarus gammarus is a large crustacean, with a body length up to 60 centimetres (24 in) and weighing up to 5–6 kilograms (11–13 lb), although the lobsters caught in lobster pots are usually 23–38 cm (9–15 in) long and weigh 0.7–2.2 kg (1.5–4.9 lb). [3]
The discovery is a one-in-2 million find, according to the New England Aquarium.
A rare 'opal' lobster caught last week is getting a lot of online attention -- and the explanation for its odd coloring is even more interesting. Lobsterman stunned to find incredibly rare ...
Fisherman Stuart Brown said the blue lobster has now been added to the list of ‘weird and wonderful things’ he has seen while out at sea. Rare blue lobster catch in Belfast Lough ‘two ...