Friday, August 14, 2009
Salisbury Now Has 3 Orange Lobsters
For anyone in MA or headed that way, you might want to stop at our Sea Life Discovery Center in Salisbury Beach. Rumor has it that the center is now home to 3 orange lobsters! The center is open Tue-Fri, 10-3 and Sat-Sun, 11-4 and is located at 25 Broadway, right next to Surfside 5 and right on Salisbury Beach.
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Why orange? I hate to be the one to ask the question, but I thought that the natural color of a lobster was greenish and that the cooked color of lobster was orange or red? What is causing these lobsters to prematurely cook themselves??!!
Hi Kurt,
Good question! You are right - usually, live lobsters are a mottled green-brown-blue. It's believed these orange ones lack a certain pigment in their shells due to a genetic variation. They really do look half-cooked! But they're not, we swear - they're alive and well.
Orange lobsters are thought to be very rare (one in 30 million!) but there have been several found in traps along the coast of Maine and Canada this year. This sudden abundance could be blamed on genetics, or maybe nutrition - some have speculated what lobsters eat can contribute to their shell color.
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