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United States fishermen catch rare "marshmallow" lobsters
Joseph · Kramer, a Strathham resident and owner of the Atlantic Lobster Company in Portsmouth, fishes lobster off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine on July 24.
At just 25 years old, he had a successful career, as early as high school he began working for lobster fishers in southern Maine, and after graduating from college, with the help of his father, he founded the Portsmouth Atlantic Lobster Company, it seems that he is obsessed with lobster fishing! And such an obsession soon brought him unexpected encounters.
On this day, he sailed out to sea as usual, ready to pick up the 20 lobster fishing cages that he had put into the sea before. The harvest of the first 19 cages was good, but when it came to the last cage, the accident happened, and he saw that the cage had a blue figure! He was instantly excited, he knew that some fishermen would catch blue lobsters, and even he had seen them with his own eyes, but he didn't expect that he also had this creation, because according to the New England Aquarium estimate, this rare animal only has one lobster in every 2 million!
But when he took the lobster out, he found that the situation was even better than he had imagined! Because it looked like a blue lobster, it was actually made of pink, purple, and lilac, which he had never seen before. He felt that this might be the only rare lobster he could find in his life!
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Joseph · Kramer investigated that there have been similar lobsters caught by others in history, but only a handful, this lobster is similar in color to children's marshmallows, and it is said that this lobster is very straightforwardly called: "marshmallow" lobster.
"Now I think it's definitely the only thing I've ever been able to catch in my life, and maybe even the only thing I'll ever see again," Kramer said. "I'm so glad I caught it, and I hope it will survive the rest of my life safely."
With that in mind, Kramer donated the lobster two days later to the Coast Science Center at Audi Orn Point State Park in Rai, New Hampshire.
Coast Science Center at Cape Audi Orne State Park is no stranger to this, as they already have two lobsters of the same color. A representative of the Science Center said in an interview that although they have 3 of these lobsters, this does not mean that this lobster is common, in fact the probability of its occurrence is about 1 in 100 million!
In fact, this is not the first time that lobsters with strange colors have been found, orange, yellow, red and blue lobsters have been found before, why do these rare colored lobsters have these strange colors?
Experts explain the science behind marshmallow lobsters
Kramer caught a healthy male lobster, aged between 6-14 years. Sam Rutka, Aquarium caretaker at ·the Coast Science Center, says the lobsters are a strange color due to a genetic mutation, but they don't usually have the effect of being hand-painted or spray-painted like the "marshmallow" lobsters.
Marshmallow lobsters are still rare, but Rutka admits that there are also blue and marshmallow-colored lobsters in Maine Gulf, which are occasionally brought to the Aquarium. Rutka estimates that he has dealt with 15 marshmallow-coloured lobsters in his 10-plus years of career, but given the number of lobsters caught worldwide, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they are 1 in 100 million.
Marshmallow lobsters are rare, not only by chance, but also because of their high-profile color schemes, which are easier to spot by predators.
"Genetic mutations are a normal occurrence in nature. These animals actually make them more susceptible to predation due to mutations, whose shells express different color genes," Lutka said. "It's rare because it's easier for predators to spot, which means that no one has found it yet, and the lobster eats it."
The Coast Science Center plans to display the crustacean in the facility in the next two to three weeks. The lobster has been placed in a suitable quarantine pool at the center and it is slowly regaining its health.