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This image released by the New England Aquarium shows a one-pound female lobster, known as a "split," that was caught by a Massachusetts fisherman last week and arrived at the aquarium in Boston today. Officials say such rare Halloween coloration is estimated to occur once in every 50 million lobsters.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
This image released by the New England Aquarium shows a one-pound female lobster, known as a "split," that was caught by a Massachusetts fisherman last week and arrived at the aquarium in Boston today. Officials said such rare Halloween coloration is estimated to occur once in every 50 million lobsters.
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.
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