'Electric' blue lobster finds new home at London Aquarium after being saved

A rare 'electric' blue lobster has been rescued from being sold to a hungry punter and will instead be put on display at the London Aquarium.

The deep-blue-coloured crustacean, which was caught by fishermen off the east coast of Scotland, was found by Rex Goldsmith on sale at Billingsgate market in London.
'It's the most striking blue lobster I have seen in my 30 years in the business and was too nice to put in a pot and boil,' said Goldsmith.

Shocked by the intense colour of the lobster, Rex decided to buy it and take it home with him to inform researchers at the National History Museum.

'I had a word with the seller and we both agreed on how nice it looked. He sold it to me for £10, which is the normal price for a lobster that size.'

The researchers believe the lobster gained its blue exterior because of a possible rare genetic alteration. Coming from a similar species of lobster to the homarus americanus of the US, the creature should have been born with a much darker blue exoskeleton.

This particular species of lobster is found in British waters as well as in Norway, the Mediterranean, Crete and Morocco.
Yet to be given a proper name, Mr Goldsmith's find will now be on display at the London Aquarium.

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Youppi, Rare Orange Lobster, Dies

MONTREAL - It wasn't boiling water but possibly a variation in temperature in his saltwater tank that wound up cooking Youpi, the celebrity lobster.

Plans are underway now to celebrate the short, mostly uneventful life of the sea creature whose beady, unblinking eyes warmed the hearts of Canadians, some of whom perhaps dreamed only of seeing him on their plate.

He earned minor national fame, grabbing news headlines for the genetic defect that turned him a bright orange — a one-in-10-million hue for a living lobster.

An afficionado of pretty much any shrimp that was fed to him, the three-pound Youpi became a truly heavenly lobster on Nov. 4.

"It could have been a variation in temperature" in his tank, said Guylaine Frechette, director of the nature centre that gave him a home. She added that the exact cause of his demise hasn't been determined.

But Youpi won't be forgotten.

He'll be celebrated in a year-long sendoff with the lobster laid out on display, allowing people to pay their respects — or just to learn something about lobsters.

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Not on the menu at Wegmans: rare yellow lobster

Employees of a Rochester-area Wegmans stumbled upon one of nature’s anomalies when sorting through seafood—a rare yellow lobster. How rare, you ask? It’s a one-in-30 million find!

Wegmans tweeted about the golden crustacean, noting that it was donated to the Aquarium of Niagara. According to the Pittsford store’s Facebook page, the lobster stood out from the other creatures in
Monday’s seafood shipment because of its unique hue. The average lobster usually sports a dark greenish brown color, but these yellow fellows are the result of a genetic mutation. An adorable genetic mutation!

It should be no surprise that Wegmans decided to donate the oddity to an aquarium. Just a few months back, Wegmans got a shout-out from Greenpeace for drastically improving the selection of sustainable seafood. Another big high-five for Weggies.

I’m particularly fond of this lobster—more so than other underwater insects!—because it’s the same color as my car. You’ll know it when you see it driving around Buffalo.

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