It’s hard to put a price on Maddie the cotton candy lobster, since she’s a 1-in-100 million find. But lobsters overall are clawing up to $15 per pound this fall.
A Maine lobsterman pulled an iridescent pink and blue “cotton candy” lobster from a trap off the coast of Maine over the weekend, which is one of the rarest lobster hues around.
While most lobsters caught off of North America’s Atlantic coast tend to be a brownish-green in color, the pigment of their shells can vary due to a natural chemical called astaxanthin, and the way it interacts with different proteins. It’s similar to how the melanin in humans gives us various skin tones.
iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } They’re so rare that it’s difficult to put a price tag on them — especially since, as in this case, they are often donated to aquariums, rather than sold.
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