PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Portland seafood wholesaler has acquired a lobster that will never see the dinner table despite having double the usual amount of claw meat.
Ready Seafood Co. bought the lobster, which has four fully formed claws, from a Canadian dealer. The critter has three claws on one arm and one on the other. Lobsters normally have two claws one for pinching and one for crushing.
Ready Seafood's in-house marine biologist Curt Brown on Thursday said he's never seen a four-clawed lobster in more than a decade in the business. He says a genetic mutation most likely caused the extra claws.