Posted on 07/14/2006 7:35:49 PM PDT by Libloather
Maine lobsterman pulls up rare lobster
2 hours, 24 minutes ago
A rare two-toned lobster is seen in this Thursday, July 13, 2006, photo taken in Bar Harbor, Maine. The lobster caught by Alan Robinson in Dyer's Bay is a typical mottled green on one side; the other side is a shade of orange that looks cooked. Robinson, of Steuben, donated the lobster to the Mount Desert Oceanarium. Staff members say the odds or finding a half-and-half lobster are 1 in 50 million to 100 million. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Abigail Curtis)
BAR HARBOR, Maine - An eastern Maine lobsterman caught a lobster this week that looks like it's half-cooked.
The lobster caught by Alan Robinson in Dyer's Bay that is a typical mottled green on one side; the other side is a shade of orange that looks cooked.
Robinson, of Steuben, donated the lobster to the Mount Desert Oceanarium. Staff members say the odds or finding a half-and-half lobster are 1 in 50 million to 100 million. By comparison, the odds of finding a blue lobster are about 1 in a million.
Robinson, who has been fishing for more than 20 years, said he didn't know what to think when he spotted the odd creature in his trap.
"I thought somebody was playing a joke on me," Robinson said. "Once I saw what it was ... it was worth seeing."
Bette Spurling, who works at the oceanarium, said lobster shells are usually a blend of the three primary colors: red, yellow and blue. Those colors mix to form the greenish-brown color of most lobsters. This lobster, though, has no blue in half of its shell, she said.
Bernard Arseneau, a former manager at the oceanarium's lobster hatchery, said lobsters also have a growth pattern in which the two sides develop independently of each other.
The oceanarium has received only three two-toned lobsters in its 35 years of existence, staff members said.
So how does it taste?
Delicious.
Sticking a strange lobster in a trap would be a lot of trouble for a joke.
Evolution in action?
The show about crab fishermen in Alaska shows me that those guys will go to a lot of trouble for a joke. I saw an episode where they pulled up another boat's thousand lb crab pot and put their trash in it.
Kinda reminds me of the two female US Senators from Maine
Global Warming; Bush's fault; the result of tax cuts... okay, got that outta the way: resume thread.
Lobster chimera?
It would be quite convenient for us were lobsters to start emerging from the ocean already cooked.
half cooked.
look delish
Probably exactly what the resident hippies in Bar Harbor said.
It's a Michael Jackson lobster.
I believe it's called a Kerry Lobster.
Heh, heh. I get it. Half red, half green.
That's exactly what I thought of.
That lobster looks stained or dyed; the line is too sharp, straight, and clear cut.
I guess that explains the photo of a rare all-blue lobster that was going around the net a while back. Not only was that thing blue -- it also was big!
It may be 1 in 50 million, but another was caught just a month ago.
http://www.nbc30.com/news/9360872/detail.html
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