Split-colored lobster caught off Maine, 1 in 50 million find

[unhappycamper]

http://www.wcvb.com/news/splitcolored-lobster-caught-off-maine-1-in-50-million-find/34036222



An orange-brown lobster was brought into the Pine Point Fisherman’s Co-Op. According to the Lobster Institute, the chance of finding a split colored lobster is one in 50 million. Only the albino lobster, at one in 100 million, is rarer, according to the institute.

Split-colored lobster caught off Maine, 1 in 50 million find
1:54 PM EDT Jul 07, 2015

SCARBOROUGH, Maine —A rare orange-brown split-colored lobster has turned up off the coast of Maine.

The Press Herald reports that the unusual lobster arrived last week at Pine Point Fisherman's Co-Op in Scarborough.

According to research by the Lobster Institute, the chance of finding a split-colored lobster is one in 50 million.

The institute reports that only the albino lobster is rarer, with the chances of catching it at one in 100 million.

[DawgHouse]

1. Strange but very pretty!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. I hope that rare colouring got him a reprieve from going into somebody's dinner, and he's in a zoo

or aquarium somewhere, making people ooh and ahhh.

[Nay]

3. I hope so, too. Please don't eat this little guy!! nt

[Thor_MN]

4. One in 50 million? Seems like there one found every year, or at least every other year.

What does that say about the amount we are pulling from the ocean?