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Black and orange lobster caught off Massachusetts
POSTED: 06:33 a.m. HST, Oct 31, 2012
LAST UPDATED: 02:57 p.m. HST, Oct 31, 2012
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BOSTON » A Massachusetts fisherman has caught a rare lobster known as a "split" that is colored to match Halloween.
The New England Aquarium says the one-pound female lobster has an orange side and a black side, with the colors perfectly split down the middle.
Officials say such coloration is estimated to occur once in every 50 million lobsters.
The fisherman who caught the seasonally-colored crustacean is from Beverly, a seaside community 20 miles northeast of Boston..
Aquarium officials say that in the last 10 years, splits have been caught in Maine, Rhode Island and Nova Scotia.
