![]() (The aquarium rescued a calico lobster named Calvin in 2012.) So many blue lobsters that aren’t outstandingly vibrant are turned away by the New England Aquarium in Boston, spokesperson Tony LaCasse told ’s Nik DeCosta-Klipa in 2017. “It shows the great deal of respect the fisherman have for the ocean, the fact that they’re willing to give up a piece of their livelihood.”īut often, fishermen and restaurants make calls to local oceanariums, aquariums, zoos and museums looking for a suitable refuge for their find. “They’re conservationists, the lobstermen,” says New Hampshire invertebrate zoologist Ellen Goethel to the Washington Post. ![]() Often, lobstermen will return their unusual finds to the sea rather than include them with the day’s catch. But it’s much rarer than blue lobsters, which make up about one in five million of the critters, according to the New England Aquarium.įreckles was found at a Red Lobster restaurant on April 25īecause close to 525 million lobsters are caught each summer in Maine alone, there are “plenty of opportunity for lobstermen” to snag an unusual catch, says University of Maine marine ecologist Robert Steneck to the Washington Post’s Paulina Firozi. Calico lobsters aren’t quite as rare as all-white “ghost” lobsters, which make up about one-in-100-million lobsters. "We are so proud of our employees for recognizing that Freckles was so special-and for reaching out so we could make arrangements for rescue."Īs a calico lobster, Freckles is a one-in-30-million find. "Calico-colored lobsters like Freckles are so rare, it was almost unbelievable that we received one," said a Red Lobster spokesperson to CNN. The museum’s senior director of animal welfare and conservation Chris Crippen and aquarium curator Patrycja Lawryniuk picked up Freckles on April 29, the museum wrote on Facebook. ![]() The zoo helped the restaurant find a local rescue option: the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News on the Virginia Peninsula. The company then contacted the Akron Zoo in Ohio for advice because the zoo had taken in a blue lobster named Clawdia last year, per Mike Pomranz at Food & Wine. ![]() Most lobsters are a muddy brown color, but this large male looked like its shell had been splatter-painted with bright orange.Įmployees at the restaurant recognized the rarity of the lobster’s shell, named him Freckles and reached out to the Red Lobster support team to make a rescue plan, reports Alaa Elassar for CNN. "That's why it's so amazing she's made it this far in the first place.Late last month, workers at a Red Lobster Seafood Restaurant in Manassas, Virginia, found a spectacularly speckled crustacean in their usual shipment. "Because she's so bright, she's very vulnerable to predators," Montoya said. In Boston and the National Aquarium in Baltimore have also expressed interest in housing Eve, along with a few others outside of the US, Montoya said.īut putting her back in the ocean wouldn't be the safest thing to do. , which bills itself as the largest in the country. "The possibility of caring for such a unique and rare animal, plus being able to potentially share that with our guests, is something we would be very excited to do," said Jessica Fontana, director of communications at the Georgia Aquarium In a press release, Ocean City Seafood said Eve will be donated to an aquarium - possibly the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, although plans haven't been finalized yet. We're looking into all of the options," Montoya said. Montoya said Eve is waiting in a special tank at the market while they decide what to do next. While calico lobsters are extremely rare, the chances of finding an albino lobster are even rarer - one in 100 million. In Baltimore and learned just how special Eve was.Īmerican lobsters can be blue, yellow, split-colored, or even albino, according to the University of Maine's Lobster Institute Later he reached out to the National Aquarium Nicholas determined the lobster was female and gave her a name. "He didn't know why she was special," said Rita Montoya, a spokeswoman for the market. ![]() The owner of the Ocean City Seafood market in Silver Spring, Maryland, who wants to be identified only as Nicholas, didn't want to send the crustacean to a restaurant to become someone's dinner. The odds of catching one are about one in 30 million It turned out to be a rare calico lobster. The owner of a fish market in suburban Washington was sifting through his daily seafood delivery from Maine in late December when he came across a curious find: a lobster with a speckled, orange-and-black shell. Now instead of a lobster pot she's going to live in an aquarium. ![]()
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