Black and orange lobster caught off Massachusetts
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This image released by the New England Aquarium shows a one-pound female lobster, known as a "split," that was caught by a Massachusetts fisherman last week and arrived at the aquarium in Boston today. Officials say such rare Halloween coloration is estimated to occur once in every 50 million lobsters.
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This image released by the New England Aquarium shows a one-pound female lobster, known as a "split," that was caught by a Massachusetts fisherman last week and arrived at the aquarium in Boston today. Officials said such rare Halloween coloration is estimated to occur once in every 50 million lobsters.
BOSTON » A Massachusetts fisherman has caught a rare lobster known as a “split” that is colored to match Halloween.
The New England Aquarium says the one-pound female lobster has an orange side and a black side, with the colors perfectly split down the middle.
Officials say such coloration is estimated to occur once in every 50 million lobsters.
The fisherman who caught the seasonally-colored crustacean is from Beverly, a seaside community 20 miles northeast of Boston..
Aquarium officials say that in the last 10 years, splits have been caught in Maine, Rhode Island and Nova Scotia.
