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• Ripleys.com (of "Believe It or Not!" fame) claims that orange lobsters are even more rare -- to the tune of 1-in-30-million -- than the blue variety.
So one can imagine the surprise of Captain Peter Pray, a lobsterman working in Casco Bay near Portland, Maine, when he caught his third orange lobster in a week.
WGME-13 reported that Pray, who is one of the lobster suppliers for Harbor Fish Market, made his latest catch, a female, using the same trap with which he caught the others, which were male.
A tweet from Harbor Fish Market asked the question on everyone's mind: "What's up Casco Bay? What kind of lobster magic is happening in your waters?" [WGME-13, 6/15/2023]