Clarice, the Calico Lobster
In his 15 years of commercial lobster fishing, David Stamatis says he’s never seen a lobster like the one he pulled out of his trap in Cape Cod Bay on July 18. From among the typical brick-red and brown crustaceans crawled a black lobster mottled with bright yellow and orange spots. A calico lobster is a one-in-30-million mutant. It is the third-rarest lobster variant in the world, behind only the split-colored and the albino lobsters. But now he has to figure out what to do with it. He has tried, unsuccessfully so far, to give it away. “I want to donate it so that others can enjoy it and maybe it can be studied,” he said. There’s one particular fate Stamatis hopes doesn’t befall the lobster: “I don’t want anyone to eat it.” >click to read< 11:37
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