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Can Lobsters and Octopuses Feel Pain? Scientists Say Yes, and the UK Is Listening
A report by the London School of Economics found these animals have the capacity to experience pain or distress.
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Extremely Rare Cotton Candy-Colored Lobster Caught in Maine
A lucky lobsterman in Maine just caught a 1-in-100 million lobster over the weekend. Fisherman Bill Coppersmith found a cotton candy-colored lobster in a haul from Casco Bay, News Center Maine reported. The lobster, named Haddie after Coppersmith’s granddaughter, is a 1-in-100 million catch, according to Portland-based seafood company Get Maine Lobster. Cotton candy is one of the rarest...
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Rare Orange Lobster Found at Scottsdale Restaurant to Be Donated to Aquarium
An orange lobster narrowly escaped being someone’s dinner after restaurant staff found out she was a rare, one in 30 million specimen.
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At 101, She's Still Hauling Maine Lobsters With No Plans to Stop
The lobsters fetched 28 cents a pound on the docks when she first starting trapping them 90 years ago; today, the price is 15 times that.
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Ex-Owner of Cape Cod Seafood Company Accused of Damaging $10K Worth of Lobsters
The ex-owner of a Cape Cod seafood company is charged with destroying $10,000 worth of lobsters at his former shop last week.
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Mass. Lobster Diver Survives After ‘a Humpback Whale Tried to Eat Me'
A commercial lobster diver was injured when he said he was swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod Friday. Michael Packard was in the whale’s closed mouth for 30-40 seconds, he said.
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Lobster Lovers Feeling the Pinch as Summer Nears
Lobster is more expensive than usual this season due to a limited supply, high demand and the reopening of the economy as the nation moves past the coronavirus pandemic.
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This Maine Lobsterman Is Going Viral on TikTok. The Reason Will Warm Your Heart
Jacob Knowles, a fifth-generation Maine fisheman, is going viral on TikTok for a surprising — and adorable — reason.
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Baby Born on Maine Island For 1st Time in More Than 90 Years
A mother has given birth to a baby on Maine’s Little Cranberry Island for the first time in more than nine decades. Born two weeks ago, Azalea Belle Gray is the sixth child for Aaron Gray and Erin Fernald Gray. The Bangor Daily News reports that Azalea’s great-grandfather, a lifelong lobsterman, had been the most recent baby born on...
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Claws of Health? Lobster Blood Could Play Role in New Drugs
Maine lobsters have long delighted tourists as the state’s most beloved seafood. But one company thinks the crustaceans can save human lives by providing their blood for use in new drugs.
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Wild Boston Lobster Truck Chase Ends With Crash and Thief's Arrest: Police
A man stole a lobster truck early Tuesday morning in Boston, then intentionally crashed into another vehicle that had chased him before being rear-ended by another lobster truck, police said. The man whose truck was stolen was able to stop it from getting away by blocking the street with his personal vehicle, which was T-boned in the process, according to…
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Rare Catch: Maine Fisherman's Haul Includes 3 Colorful Lobsters
It was a lucky day for one lobsterman when he caught not one, not two, but three rare and colorful lobsters in Maine. Dorr Lobster Seafood Market in Ellsworth, Maine, said a fisherman hauled in the three colorful crustaceans. A photo of the rare sight shows one calico, one blue, and one already-red lobster in the bunch. The fisherman’s...
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Half-Cooked? Rare Two-Toned Lobster Found in Maine, Now on Display
A rare, two-toned lobster has been saved from the boiling pot and is now on display at a marine education center in Stonington, Maine. Stonington fisherman Capt. Daryl Dunham caught the red and black crustacean last week and brought it to the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries’ Discovery Wharf.
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Rainbow Lobsters: Rare Crustaceans Found in New England
Lobsters are not uncommon in New England, but rare-colored crustaceans make for some excitement. Some have gone on display at aquariums and science centers.
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Ghostly, Translucent Lobster Caught Off Maine Coast
Maine lobsterman Alex Todd has hauled in blue lobsters and even some lobsters that were half blue, or half orange. But he says those don’t compare on the scale of weirdness to the translucent crustacean that he recently pulled up in a trap.
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Potential Trade Deal Puts Maine Lobster Industry in Jeopardy
A new trade deal between Canada and the European Union has New England fishermen reeling, worried that their live lobster exports won’t be able to compete.
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Potential Trade Deal Puts Maine Lobster Industry in Jeopardy
A new trade deal between Canada and the European Union has New England fishermen reeling, worried that their live lobster exports won’t be able to compete.
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Potential Trade Deal Puts Maine Lobster Industry in Jeopardy
A new trade deal between Canada and the European Union has New England fishermen reeling, worried that their live lobster exports won’t be able to compete.