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Todd threw the lobster back into the ocean because it is an egg-bearing female.
That’s the best part of the story.
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translated from the original Maine:
ts like tws clee-ah but wit whyte undha tha cle-ahness
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I grew up on Cape Cod and lobster “scrubbing” is a real thing. Lobstermen brush off the eggs to pass them off as male lobsters.
Here’s an example story: http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/19991209/NEWS01/312099944
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I wonder if it would have been kept and eaten if it wasn’t an egg bearing female.
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Probably kept and sold at auction; being a rarity, possibly not eaten, but sold to a museum or aquarium.
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Clear shellfish do have less calories than regular ones.
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It’s the Crystal Pepsi of lobsters.
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And so it begins…
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