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| Rare Blue Lobster Avoids the Cooker | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 12 2007, 10:36 PM (145 Views) | |
| TribbleMom | Jun 12 2007, 10:36 PM Post #1 |
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Now here's a horse ... er, lobster ... of a different color: http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index..../12/687981.html NEW LONDON, Conn. - Call it crustacean discrimination. A lobster caught last weekend by Steve Hatch and his uncle Robert Green was spared from being cooked and ripped apart on a plate because of its color. The 1 1/2-pound clawed creature is bright blue, the result of an extremely rare genetic mutation. It turned up Sunday morning in one of Hatch and Green's lobster traps at the mouth of the Thames River. "I've heard about them but this is the first one I've ever seen," Hatch told The Day of New London newspaper. Later that afternoon, he put the lobster in a cooler and brought it to the Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration, where it will live out its days in an elementary school classroom for children to learn about. Catherine Ellis, curator of fish and invertebrates at the aquarium, said only one in 3 million lobsters are "true blue," meaning their color is the result of genetics and not the environment. The one caught Sunday will join two other blue lobsters at the aquarium. Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that the blue coloring occurs when lobsters produce an excessive amount of protein because of a genetic mutation. But if blue lobsters are cooked like their red brethren, they too turn red, Ellis said. |
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| 24thcenstfan | Jun 13 2007, 08:37 PM Post #2 |
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![]() At least the lobster has nothing to feel blue about, now that he has been saved from the cooker. Reminds me of that seafood commercial (Gordon's I think) that shows the square fish flopping around ( = generic fish filet brand) on the boat alongside the other normal shaped fish. The guys are like, "that ain't natural".
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| TribbleMom | Jun 13 2007, 08:47 PM Post #3 |
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I think he's getting the royal treatment now at the aquarium. |
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| 24thcenstfan | Jun 15 2007, 04:44 PM Post #4 |
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This story almost seems like something someone hatched up for a science fiction movie. |
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| TribbleMom | Jun 16 2007, 12:13 AM Post #5 |
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But I azure you, it's for real. |
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| 24thcenstfan | Jun 17 2007, 01:30 PM Post #6 |
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I bet the other fishermen were green with envy that Hatch caught such a lobster. |
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| TribbleMom | Jun 17 2007, 09:47 PM Post #7 |
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Maybe Hatch thought, "Somebody pinch me so I know I'm not dreaming" when he saw the blue lobster. |
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| 24thcenstfan | Jun 18 2007, 04:50 PM Post #8 |
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I forgot to mention that I have been to the Mystic Aquarium. They had three Beluga Whales on exhibit at the time. They are so beautiful. And that is a true blue story. |
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