AP speaks with Goode, Wahle on strange lobsters
AP News and interviewed Andrew Goode, University of Maine postdoctoral research associate, and Richard Wahle, former director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, on lobsters with unique shell colors — like orange and blue — and their rarity. Lobsters’ color can vary due to genetic and dietary differences, and estimates about how rare certain colors are should be taken with a grain of salt, said Goode, also lead administrative scientist for the American Lobster Settlement Index. “In an annual catch consisting of hundreds of millions of lobster, it shouldn’t be surprising that we see a few of the weird ones every year, even if they are 1 in a million or 1 in 30 million,” Wahle said. ABC News and WBUR (NPR Boston) shared the AP report.