Fox News speaks with Bayer about red lobster found at New York restaurant

Bob Bayer, director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Fox News report about a red lobster that was discovered at a Burger & Lobster restaurant in New York City. The lobster, named Ruby, was received in a shipment from Nova Scotia and will find a new home at the Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center in Riverhead, New York, the article states. Red lobsters are even rarer than blue ones, according to Bayer. “It’s red, and it will get redder,” especially if it is fed a proper diet of food such as crab, crab shells and shrimp, he said. According to Bayer, the genetics of blue lobsters are well known, but the genetics of red lobsters are not as well understood. ABC News and The Daily Meal also reported on Ruby, but described the lobster as yellow.