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This is a catch that certainly attracts attention.
Two fishermen off the coast of Nova Scotia, in Canada, they have gained notoriety in recent days after finding two live 150 km away from one another bright blue lobsters.
Among the fishermen of the region, is traditionally considered as a sign of good fortune.
the probability that locusts have this coloration is calculated in one of two million.
the Institute Lobster University of Maine in the United States, is among the centers that have cited these statistics in the past, although its CEO, Rob Bayer admits that it is only an “estimate”.
“the chances of this happening nobody really knows, “he says.
David Spiegelhalter, professor at the University of Cambridge, UK, pour some cold water on the history .
a rough analysis of global tonnages capture lobsters suggests that about 200 million of these animals are caught in the North Atlantic each year.
that equals 100 blue copies on average each year, if the odds of one of between two million are correct.
“So catch two three days apart, quite close to one another, does not seem at all surprising” says Spiegelhalter. “I guess it happens almost every year.”
The bright blue lobsters are in that color due to a genetic abnormality that causes them to produce more than one protein to another.
much of the rest , particularly in the western parts of the North Atlantic distinguished.
“The American lobster is usually a sort of greenish-brown, so any bright blue thing is very strange for fishermen, “says Charlie Ellis, researcher at the national lobster pound UK in Cornwall.
” but European lobsters tend to be duller blue . the type of iridescent blue is still rare here, but the difference is that, for a European fisherman seem less unusual than you it look like an American, “he said.
Ellis believes that the probability of finding a bright blue lobster can be one among a few hundred thousand.
But another British expert, Andrew Parker, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, disagrees and supports the estimated one every two million.
you can safely say that other types of lobster are even more rare. L as yellow locusts represent about one in 30 million , according to estimates of the Institute of lobster.
Two fishermen in Dorset, England, lottery odds won in 2011 when they caught an albino lobster or “crystal”: Odds it occurs are considered one among 100 million.
“Whatever likely to catch lobsters of different colors, you can not deny that a bright blue are really beautiful creatures,” says Bayer. “Maybe they are not the most unusual, but certainly are the most pleasing to the eye”.
One of the Canadian blue lobsters already been returned to the sea. The other will be kept in a tank and will be released after the end of the lobster season in mid-July.
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