Bayer Quoted in Lakes Region Weekly Report on Orange Lobster
Robert Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Lakes Region Weekly article about a Windham lobsterman who caught a bright orange crustacean in the Gulf of Maine. Statistics say a lobster of that color is about one in 30 million, according to the article. However, Bayer says nobody knows how accurate those statistics are because there is no way to estimate accurately how many oddly colored lobsters there are without them being caught. He said that while albino lobsters are extremely rare, the orange lobsters are comparatively common.
“We see these every year. And we see a variety of genetic variants every year. We see red ones and blues and calicos,” Bayer said, adding there’s a lot of public interest in odd-colored lobsters. “It’s always baffled me,” he said.