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Chances of catching ultra-rare albino lobster in U.S. are 1 in 100,000,000

2022-05-07 / 507 Read

According to a report by foreign media pressherald.com on September 12, recently, two lobstermen in Maine, USA, have successively caught very rare albino lobsters. Compared with ordinary red-brown lobsters, these two lobsters are The body is crystal clear and transparent, which is a very obvious sign of albino lobster.

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American lobster catches 1 in 100,000,000 chance of catching ultra-rare albino lobster A

It is understood that a few days ago, lobsterman Joe Bates (Joe Bates) caught the rare white lobster near the Rockland Breakwater. The following week, another lobster catcher, Bert Philbrick, also caught an albino lobster in Allshead. Bates said this was the first time he had seen a white lobster in more than 20 years of prawn fishing.

Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, said one of the lobsters, which had a cyan color in its white shell, should not be an albino lobster. Bayer says he feeds the lobsters carotenoid-rich foods, and if they weren't for albino lobsters, their shells would darken in color.

It is reported that these two rare lobsters are not of legal size and should be released into the sea, but because they are very rare, the probability of being caught is only one in 100 million, and Maine makes an exception to allow them stayed. One albino lobster has been sent to the State Aquarium in Maine, and the other is being protected at a lobster supply store in Thomaston. (Internship compilation: Fu Xiaohui review: Zhu Yingku)