
Lastly, they would be observant of the quotas and other management regulations laid out by the Total Allowable Catch and other such policies. They would only use sustainable lobsters, meaning lobsters raised by the best industry practices. A rare lobster with a striking color scheme. A Red Lobster in Manassas, Virginia, has spared a 1-in-30 million yellow-spotted 'calico' lobster. The aquarium’s collection of lobsters nearly span the color spectrum from blues, oranges and the recent yellow, to calico and even a split-colored orange and black lobster, which the. A rare calico lobster was found at the Ocean City Seafood fish market on Dec. Rare lobster, 1 in 30 million, saved from death row at Red Lobster. By 2018, this transformed into specific principles laid out by FRS Magazine: Red Lobster would only catch lobsters traceable to a known and trusted source. The female lobster, named Eve, will be donated to an aquarium. The University of Maine’s Lobster Institute estimates the odds of catching a calico lobster are 1 in 30 million, nearly 10,000 times less likely than being struck by lightning. As early as 2010, the CEO of Darden Restaurants, Red Lobster's parent company, was already proselytizing aquaculture as the future of the seafood restaurant industry to ZDNet. These lobster donations are part of Red Lobster's general push towards sustainability. But there’s a one in 50 million chance of catching a two-toned colored lobster. According to the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, the odds of catching a yellow lobster are even steeper at one in 30 million. Freckles isn't the chain's first brush with rare lobsters - the press release notes that in 2020, Red Lobster donated a blue lobster, which you might catch once in every two million lobsters, to the Akron Zoo in Ohio. Meanwhile, the defect that results in blue lobsters also results in other, even rarer colors, too. Named after the black and orange blotches that decorate their shell, calico lobsters are a true rarity, Red Lobster's press releases explains, with the chance of catching one hovering at one in 30 million.
