Rebecca McAleney / Associated Press
A
crop of unusual-colored lobsters like these at New Meadows Lobster in
Portland, Maine was believed to be extremely rare--blue was thought to
be a 1-in-2 million find, while orange was 1-in-10 million and
orange-and-black calico was pegged at 1-in-30 million. But reported
sightings of standout colors like these are becoming more and more
common.
If you thought living lobsters were red like
The Little Mermaid’s Sebastian,
you were wrong. The delicious hard-shelled crustaceans are usually
greenish brown, but in recent years, lobstermen are finding more of them
in mutant colors—orange, blue, white, yellow—and no one is sure why.
Color variation, which is caused by random genetic mutation, is
nothing new. But odd-colored lobsters are becoming much more frequent
than previously believed. Orange lobsters were thought to be a one-in-10
million occurrence—but a 100 lb. batch shipped to a Maine restaurant
last month contained six of them,
the Associated Press reports.
COURTESY--TIMES OF INDIA.
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