Price Chopper/Market 32 gives permanent vacation to rare crustacean - Times Union

Lobsters with rare pigmentations are often found by grocers and sent to live more quiet lives in aquariums

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An orange/dark yellow lobster, animal at top, was found in a shipment to Price Chopper/Market 32 in Brunswick the first week of July 2022. The color is a rarity in the crustacean. The lobster, as others have been over the years, was given to Via Aquarium in Rotterdam July 8.
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An orange/dark yellow lobster, animal at top, was found in a shipment to Price Chopper/Market 32 in Brunswick the first week of July 2022. The color is a rarity in the crustacean. The lobster, as others have been over the years, was given to Via Aquarium in Rotterdam July 8.

Provided by Pierce Communications on behalf of Price Chopper/Market 32

BRUNSWICK — A lobster was saved from the boiling pot last week after a staff member at Price Chopper/Market 32 immediately noticed the orange tint of the lobster's shell.

When pigmentation of one of the colors that makes up the crustacean's body becomes more pronounced - often due to a genetic mutation - it leads to a lobster being blue, white, calico - or in this case, a yellow or orange color.

Different statistics abound about the rarity of such a shell -- one in 3 million, one in 10 million, one in 30 million even. But no matter the official number, it is a find worth noting.

The unusual sea dweller was spotted immediately by a Market 32 employee in Brunswick as they were unloading lobsters to put in the seafood department tank, according to a Price Chopper spokesperson.

The lobster - as happened to two other orange brethren at Price Choppers five years ago - was given to Via Aquarium in Rotterdam on Friday.

An aquarium official couldn't immediately be reached Monday about how the lobsters are kept and/or displayed for public viewing.

Lauren Stanforth works for the Times Union's investigations team. Her reporting career began at the Ithaca Journal in 1996, and moved on to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in 1998, where she worked until coming to the Times Union in 2007. You can reach her at lstanforth@timesunion.com.

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