Northern Ireland fisherman lands rare blue lobster
‘Catch of a lifetime’ was made in a bay off Belfast.
Rare orange lobster rescued from supermarket
An extremely rare orange lobster was rescued from a supermarket aquarium in Rochester, NY. A customer noticed the animal in the aquarium awaiting its fate and alerted animal welfare.
One in 30 million: That's how rare an orange lobster is – live ones, at least. Just such a crustecean was recently rescued from a supermarket in Rochester, New York, when a customer saw the animal in the aquarium and informed animal welfare. This saved the lobster from the pot, as the animal welfare organization Humane Long Island reported. Normally, lobsters only turn reddish when boiled.
The attentive customer was the of for the orange lobster, which has since been christened "Jean-Clawd Van Dam". John di Leonardo, anthrozoologist and director of Humane Long Island, took the animal out to sea on a boat so that it could be released.
Creative loners
In a video on Facebook, di Leonardo explains that the probability of "finding an orange lobster is 1 in 30 million". A release back into the wild is even rarer. He goes on to explain that lobsters are intelligent and creative animals that travel hundreds of kilometers every year.
According to statistics, 100 million lobsters are caught and eaten every year in the United States alone. Even rare color variants – such as orange or blue – are not spared from the cooking pot. The rarest are albino lobsters: The probability of finding one is 1 in 100 million, which is why they are nicknamed "crystal lobsters". They are the only variety that does not turn red when cooked.
