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Rare Yellow Lobster Finds Home In Massachusetts Eatery
All Headline News ^ | June 11, 2009 | Shannon McGregor

Posted on 06/12/2009 5:29:46 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

Eastham, MA (AHN) - A rare yellow-and-orange lobster has found a new home at Arnold's Lobster and Clam Bar in this city.

Arnold's owner, Nathan "Nick" Nickerson, was given the lobster by a friend and created a home for the lobster, named Fiona, in his eatery's lobster tank, The Boston Globe reported.

Fiona weighs in at a pound and three-quarters, but it's her coloring that makes her rare. Her spotted orange-and-yellow combination makes her one in about 30 million, specialists told the Globe.

Fiona was caught sometime in the last few weeks off the coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime lobster you'll see," said Michael R. Gagne, 46, sales manager at Ipswich Shellfish Company Inc., who gave the lobster to Nickerson.

A rare genetic mutation may be the source of rare lobsters like Fiona, according to Michael F. Tlusty, director of research at the New England Aquarium.

The lobster's rare coloring may be to blame for their small numbers.

"If you're swimming over a muddy bottom, it would be much easier to see a yellow lobster than a normal-colored lobster," Tlusty told the Globe.

Nickerson, 57, has never seen a lobster like Fiona, so he spoils her. He feeds his lobsters cod fish, but Fiona eats meals of sushi quality Yellowfin tuna.

"The odds of catching them [yellows] as they move around the bottom are like the odds of going out into a football field and finding a dime that someone lost 80 years ago," David J. Casoni, secretary-treasurer of the Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association, told the Globe. "The blue lobster is still rare, but we get them more often."

Nickerson plans on keeping Fiona for the time being, eventually donating her to the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Bewster or the New England Aquarium, but there's no chance she'll end up on a dinner plate.

"Gosh no!" Nickerson told the Globe. "That would be like steaming a Rembrandt."


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Food; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: lobsters

1 posted on 06/12/2009 5:29:46 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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'Fiona.'
2 posted on 06/12/2009 5:31:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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Nathan Nickerson, owner of Cape Cod's Arnold's Lobster and Clam Bar, says a the rare yellow lobster, right, was caught off the coast of Prince Edward Island in Canada.

3 posted on 06/12/2009 5:32:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yummmm.


4 posted on 06/12/2009 5:33:51 AM PDT by FourPeas (Why does Professor Presbury's wolfhound, Roy, endeavour to bite him?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
TTIUWP (this thread is useless without pics)


5 posted on 06/12/2009 5:33:59 AM PDT by relictele
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I prefer my lobsters to be red.

6 posted on 06/12/2009 5:37:13 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Nice. Now let’s boil some water and met butter.


7 posted on 06/12/2009 5:43:11 AM PDT by Made In The USA (BO stinks.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I buy the phoney lobster now....It gets rid of the craving at a price I can afford. Sad...but....


8 posted on 06/12/2009 5:44:17 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

That’s racist!


9 posted on 06/12/2009 5:45:51 AM PDT by IrishPennant (RLT = Radical Left Terrorism...feel it????)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Nice 3-pounder on the left. Good eatin’. And, best of all... lobster’s cheap around these parts right now. You can get them fresh off the boat for $3.99/lb.


10 posted on 06/12/2009 5:49:25 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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To: Made In The USA

He will get much better business and more attention to his restaurant by keeping it alive.


11 posted on 06/12/2009 6:03:57 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Only one way to find out what color she turns after cookin. ;o)


12 posted on 06/12/2009 6:12:15 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne ("Drill now drill hard drill often and give old Gaia a cigarette afterwards she deserves it." HerrBlu)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Looks a lot like a lobster that has just come out of the steaming pot. It isn’t “done” since it is not red enough.


13 posted on 06/12/2009 6:26:22 AM PDT by miele man
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To: miele man

Arnolds is a great place to eat


14 posted on 06/12/2009 6:27:39 AM PDT by libscum (don't sit out- vote Mccain)
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To: libscum

I have no reason to doubt you. My brother-in-law is a lobster fisherman in Maine so that is where I get the bulk of my lobsters.


15 posted on 06/12/2009 6:51:35 AM PDT by miele man
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

This can only end badly...


16 posted on 06/12/2009 11:08:30 AM PDT by green pastures
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To: green pastures
"This can only end badly...
17 posted on 06/12/2009 2:42:07 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The lobster was considering running for the Senate as a Republican.


18 posted on 06/15/2009 12:43:09 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
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