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Rare Blue Lobster Avoids the Cooker
By admin | June 13, 2007
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.
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