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Rare orange lobster saved, headed to sanctuary


QMI Agency

First posted: Thursday, July 7, 2011 2:58:33 EDT PM

Youppi, the lobster. (Supplied Photo)A one-in-a-million orange lobster has been saved from becoming a seafood lover's dinner and is destined for a nature centre.
The rare lobster, named Youppi, has become a celebrity among shoppers at a Trois-Rivieres, Que., grocery store since it was delivered in a routine shipment three weeks ago.
"A lot of people come to see it and take pictures," said assistant fish department manager France Dauphin, of the crustacean that already looks boiled.
Despite many offers to buy Youppi, the store has refused to sell the three-pound shellfish - which is still being housed with the other normal lobsters.
Dauphin said Youppi will be moved to a nearby nature centre next week.
Youppi, meaning "Yippee!" in French, was named after the orange mascot of the Montreal Canadiens and former Montreal Expos.

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[petros]

This isn't going to turn out to be a waste of time and money like those damned albino sandhill cranes that everybody called whooping cranes but were to enamoured with self righteousness about saving to admit they ****ed up?

 

[Praxius]

So does this mean if you cooked it, it'd turn back to the normal colour of a lobster?

Maybe this lobster was almost cooked by someone, but escaped at the last minute..... only to be caught again.

 

[petros]

It's a Highland lobster. He's the mascot for the Inverness curling team.

 

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Rare blue lobsters named Kate and William 24


Kate Schwass-Bueckert, QMI Agency
First posted: Friday, June 24, 2011 10:17:13 EDT AM

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Two rare blue lobsters caught off the coast of P.E.I. have been dubbed Kate and William in honour of the royal visit to the province next month.
The lobsters are currently living in the Rustico Harbour Fishing Museum in the village of North Rustico, said Marie Peters, the wife of Norman Peters, a fisherman who is known as The Bearded Skipper at the museum.
Marie Peters said a fellow lobster trap owner, Blair Doucette, caught one of the blue lobsters about a month ago in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence just off the shore of the village.
"Blair agreed to let the blue lobster become a summer resident at the museum," she said. Around the same time, a half-blue, half-orange lobster was also caught. That lobster has also been donated to the museum.
On Wednesday, a couple of tourists at the restaurant attached to the museum -- which doesn't open until July 2 -- noticed the strange-coloured lobsters.
"They asked questions and then commented that the fishermen should name the rare, blue lobster and the two-colour lobster in honour of Prince William and his wife, Kate," she said.
Even though they're named William and Kate, Marie Peters said they are both females, "and that makes the situation a little odd."
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are set to stop in P.E.I. on July 4 during their tour of Canada, which gets underway in Ottawa on June 30 and ends in Calgary on July 8.
FundyLobster.com -- a website for a New Brunswick warf -- says blue lobsters are very rare and only about one in every two million is blue. The different coloured shell is due to a genetic defect that causes the lobster to produce an excessive amount of protein.

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