A man in Maine caught a lobster last week that looked like it was half cooked. It was half brownish green and half orange.
Jim Mataronas , a lobster fisherman from Newport, R.I., caught a lobster on Monday that is two different colors. The colors are orange and mottled green. It is exactly divided in half down the center of the lobster.
He said
"I pulled it out and thought someone was playing a joke on us. It looked like someone took a ruler right down it," "It looks half-cooked."
He is planning to give the lobster a good home. He mentioned Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut and Boston's New England Aquarium where he can live a long and happy live in the water and not in a pot.
Odds of finding a half-and-half lobster are 1 in 50 million. Blue lobsters are rare as well but chances of catching one are about 1 in 2 million.
Lobster shells usually come in a blend of three colors, red, yellow and blue. When the colors mix they form the greenish brown color that most lobsters are.
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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.
Last year a Canadian fisherman from Newfoundland caught a half orange, half green lobster. That lobster had one orange claw and and half the lower body was orange. He also donated the lobster to the Marine Center.
The two colors are said to be from a protein deficiency in the lobster's body and it is said to be a genetic defect.
