Rare orange lobster offered to Institute of Oceanography

The Institute of Oceanography, Nha Trang City received an Canadian lobster or American lobster (Homarus americanus) offered by the Royal Seafood International Trading Company. Ltd. (based in Ho Chi Minh City) on July 14. The lobster, 40cm long, weighing nearly 2kg was imported from Canada into Vietnam in early July 2022. The rare orange lobster was moved to an aquarium with temperatures adjusted to 5-10oC as in the natural habitat.

 

Earlier in March 2022, the Royal Seafood International Trading Company. Ltd also found a blue lobster, 48cm long, weighing 3.9kg imported from Canada into Vietnam and offered it to the Institute of Oceanography for exhibition.

 

 

 

The Homarus americanus is a species of lobster mainly found on the Atlantic coast of North America. The lobsters are usually dark blue. However, some are yellow or orange due to genetic disorders. The chance of a European lobster being yellow-orange is rare in the world, according to Ho Son Lam, Deputy Chief of the Department of Aquaculture Technology, the Institute of Oceanography.

 

 Scientists estimate the chance of a European lobster being orange is 1 in 30 million, according to Kieu Tan Vu, Chief Marketing Officer of the Royal Seafood International Trading Company. Earlier, a rare orange lobster rescued from Ontario grocery store in Canada had been moved to Toronto aquarium.

 

 

 

 

 

 

X.T

Translated by N.T