Rare Colored Lobsters Now Seen Ever More Often

In the past, seeing a colored lobster would have been regarded as quite an event, as very few of them ever got caught in fishing nets.

However, it seems that fishermen are now coming across these marine animals ever more often.

Zoologists explain that these fun-to-look-at specimens are actually genetic anomalies, and that because they are so easy to be spotted out in the wild, few of them ever make it to maturity.

Environmentalists argue that this boost in the colored lobster population is most likely due to the fact that, because humans kept interfering with the natural balance of oceanic ecosystems, some of their predators disappeared.

Diana Cowan from The Lobster Conservancy believes that, “With the predator population down, notably cod, there might be greater survival rates among these color morphs that are visually easier to pick out.”

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