HAMPTON, N.H. — A fisherman has caught a rare lobster that's bright
orange with dark blue spots.
Josiah Beringer found the calico lobster in a trap on July 23 in
the mouth of New Hampshire's Hampton Harbor. He donated the
1.5-pound, 5-year-old male lobster to the Explore the Ocean World
Oceanarium in Hampton.
Beringer tells the Portsmouth Herald (http://bit.ly/1zuh9T6 ) the
lobster was found in an area known as Washerwoman Rock, an area
between two rocks that gets its name from its "really rough" and
"washing machine"-like waters.
The aquarium's Ellen Goethel says calico lobsters are the second
rarest in the world, after albino lobsters. She says the spots are
the result of a genetic pigmentation mutation occurring in 1 in
every 30 million to 50 million lobsters.
In this Tuesday, July 29, 2014 photo, Ellen Goethel, a marine
biologist and owner of Explore the Ocean World Oceanarium in
Hampton, N.H., holds a calico lobster. Captain Josiah Beringer, of
the fishing vessel Patricia Lynn, caught the lobster in one of his
traps and donated the 1 ½-pound, 5-year-old male lobster to the
aquarium. Goethel said calico lobsters are the "second most rare
lobster" in the world, after albino lobsters
