NH man snares rare, cobalt-blue lobster

YahooNews ^ | Aug 22, 2009 | staff reporter

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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — At first, New Hampshire lobsterman Bill Marconi thought he had caught a shiny blue beer can in his trap. It turns out it was a rare, cobalt-blue lobster. The 52-year-old lobsterman was out hauling 400 traps with his son Wednesday when he snared the 1 1/2-pound lobster in between his dock and the Isle of Shoals, about six miles off the coast.

New England Aquarium Research Director Mike Tlusty told Foster's Daily Democrat only one in 5 million lobsters are blue

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It's summer! Lobstahs!

[17th Miss Regt]

Red Lobster said, “We don’t serve their kind here!”

[SteamShovel]

NH man snares rare, cobalt-blue lobster

Will it stay blue when boiled?

[kingu]

Got the pot and butter, I’ll do some testing on the lobster and let everyone know how it tastes.

[Parley Baer]

“Marconi donated his lobster to the Seacoast Science Center.”

Dead or Alive?

[Right Brother]

[freebilly]

“Oh, Mista Robsta-san, why you so brue...?”

[mysterio]

Awesome. I hope they let it go or put it in a large aquarium.

[70th Division]

What a great color for a car. Maybe a vet or a BMW G someting. WOW!

[Jeff Chandler]

That looks delicious!

[Daffynition]

I say!

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Good question ... I dunno. Maybe not the part that isn't in the boiling water.

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Yummmmmmmmmmmmm...........

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We even have them in yellow and albinoness..

[MinuteGal]

"Lobsters are coming!"

Look out, Obammy, the freeper "mobsters" are coming to DC in September.....and they don't like anything RED!

Better hide in the Bushes!

Leni/MinuteGal ( Free Republic National Tea Party Convention committee )

(......see my tagline)

[freebilly]

From Wikipedia: It is estimated that only about one in 100 million lobsters are albino — lacking in colored pigments.

Just how many lobsters are there...?Inquiring minds want to know....

[freebilly]

WTF..?!

[autumnraine]

That is the most beautiful color of blue I have ever seen!

Seriously, I want to imitate that for something in my home. Gorgeous, just gorgeous!

[autumnraine]

Exactly! That is a beautiful color!

[autumnraine]

Ugh, I like it better when I’m ripping it out and it doesn’t show the form of the animal I’m eating. I like living in denial. ;o)

[wardaddy]

that’s nothing.

i’ve seen plenty of square groupers in my day

*no pics though

[wardaddy]

wow...i never get that much meat of the little fellers

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Answer: Just the one on my plate ... that's the only one that matters! ;-P

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From The Secret Life of Lobsters

These enormous devices, built by Avure Technologies, are called hydrostatic pressure processing (HPP) systems. They come in several models. The entrepreneur mentioned in my article, John Hathaway of Shucks Maine Lobster, is the proud owner of the Avure 215L — which weighs 80,000 pounds and is 16 feet tall.

The HPP technology was initially developed by the U.S. Army to make better-tasting MREs (”meals ready to eat”) for the troops. The science of it is relatively simple. If a piece of food is immersed in water, and the water is then squeezed to high enough pressure, pathogens and bacteria will be neutralized, but the food will be otherwise unaffected.

You press the start button on an Avure machine. Powerful pumps whir, and inside a narrow tube in the center of the machine, the water pressure is compressed to several times the pressure found in the deepest trenches in the ocean. The microscopic bugs in your meal all die, giving the food extended shelf life, and reducing the need for artificial preservatives.

At the same time, all the muscle flesh inside the lobsters conveniently separates from the shell. For the first time in human history, people have finally devised way to extract the meat of a lobster without cooking it.

When the lobsters come out of the Avure machine after a minute or two, the result is arresting. Every piece of meat can easily be extracted from the shell, raw and fully intact, including the leg muscles.

As a friend of mine put it: It’s a crustacean without the crust.

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No pix here either .........but watermelon is another traditional summer treat!

[wardaddy]

that’s amazing....those must be container growth melons

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It's that great? The Japanese farmers put the young melons in glass containers while they are still field-growing. They claim the melon is easier to store in the fridge.

[17th Miss Regt]

Wow! What a costume!

[paulycy]

[Daniel II]

Larry the Lobster says: “Better dead than red.”

[MediaMole]

That lobster should run on the Libertarian ticket in Mondana. The have a history of blue candidates.

[MediaMole]

Mondana = Montana

[Vigilantcitizen]

Square melons?!?

That's wong...WONG!!

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10 million people can't be Wong!

[Marie Antoinette]

Ping with drawn buttah. :)

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Lobsta on the dock are $4.99 lb .........culls .....$3.99 this weekend.

[El Sordo]

Wow.

[JoeProBono]

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[mickey finn]

“Lobsta on the dock are $4.99 lb .........culls .....$3.99 this weekend.”

I will be in NH over labor day and promise to take advantage of the lobster prices. I also promise to eat fried clams at least once. Living in Oregon has its benefits but they don't have lobster and they don't no how to fry a clam, let alone a belly clam.

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Lobster will still be cheap! I'd miss whole belly clams and mussels on the west coast too!

I've tried a lot of whole belly clams up and down the east coast and the very, very best are at Lenny & Joe's in Madison and Westbrook, CT .... it's really the fresh batter they use and quality of the clams ......and their cole slaw is homemade delish! [You must ask for them to be fried light no matter where you go]

Another great place is Captain Scott's Lobster Dock in New London

Up your way, if you can get to Wicasset, Red's Eats in Maine is the very best!

Best fried whole oysters ...Union Oyster House, Boston.

[SunkenCiv]

Oooh, should start a captive breeding program...

[JoeProBono]

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The Fish Tale has a wonderful Dentzel Carousel and uses it to raise money for local charities. It's a good thing.

[Clemenza]

Union is OK, but can’t hold a candle to either the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal in NYC or the Acme Oyster House in New Orleans.

[steveo]

Everybody get outta here! There’s a lobster loose! Look out, everyone, he’s vengeful! Quickly! Cover yourself butter and carry lemons just in case you have to squirt him and so forth to repel him! There’s gonna be a tragedy!
Oh God...AAAH!

[JoeProBono]