Sunday, 23. August 2009
Topic: NATURE - on August 23, 2009 at 12:29:00 PM CEST
Portsmouth lobstermen make a one-in-5-million find with blue crustacean
You can't blame longtime lobsterman Bill Marconi for thinking he caught a Miller Light can Wednesday when he pulled a trap to find something that marine experts say carries a one in five million chance of being caught.
Call it the kind of catch made once in a blue moon because Marconi snagged himself a rare cobalt-blue lobster whose coloring is said to come from how certain rare animals process a complex antioxidant pigment that is absorbed in the crustaceans' skin and shell.
