Red king crab caught in Bering Sea is lavender-colored, baffling experts

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Veteran wholesaler in Japan says peculiar catch "could be a good omen'

January 31, 2014 by Pete Thomas

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A good omen, a bad diet, or merely some kind of mutation caused by some unknown factor?

These were some of the reactions among wholesalers in Japan when one of a shipment of red king crabs turned out to be lavender....

...“I’ve been dealing with crabs for 25 years, but this is the first time to see that color,” Kenetsu Mikami, president of Marusan Ocean Foods, told the Japanese-language Hokkaido Doshin. “It could be a good omen.”...

...According to News.com in Australia, experts at a research center in Hokkaido believe the peculiar coloration was “the effect of its diet or possibly a mutation causing a lack of pigment.”

There has been some debate on the Internet, with some insisting that radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster is the most likely explanation.

But perhaps a natural mutation causing a pigment change is the most likely explanation. This occurs in rare cases among lobsters, which have been found to be blue, calico colored, two-toned, white, and so on.

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Full article with more links to crazy catches:
[link to www.grindtv.com]

OK, so it might be a one-off genetic mutation, as have many others over thousands of years.... it just got my attention as it was Japanese who found it and called it a "Good omen", and the scientists, as usual where "baffled"......

what ever happened to non-baffled scientists?

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 02/06/2014 10:16 PM