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Title: Boy/girl lobster caught off Massachusetts
Post by: Shana A on October 29, 2010, 09:08:42 AM
Boy/girl lobster caught off Massachusetts; New school region halfway there, maybe; Did a missing street sign cause his fiancee's death?
10/28/10 · 5:05 am :: posted by editor

http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2010/10/28/lobster-with-male-and-female-parts-caugh?blog=109 (http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2010/10/28/lobster-with-male-and-female-parts-caugh?blog=109)

Lobster with male and female parts heads to UNH for research

It has a fatter egg carrying abdomen and a more skinny male abdomen and has male and female sex organs.

It was a first for Lyle Smith, the manager of the Cherry Street Fish Market in Danvers. According to the Danvers Herald, a lobster delivery from the vessel William Bowe included a unique specimen--a lobster with both male and female parts.

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Lobster found with both male and female parts

By Steven Ryan
GateHouse News Service
Posted Oct 26, 2010 @ 05:22 PM

http://www.wickedlocal.com/danvers/features/x1946670598/Lobster-found-with-both-male-and-female-parts (http://www.wickedlocal.com/danvers/features/x1946670598/Lobster-found-with-both-male-and-female-parts)

Lyle Smith, the manager of the Cherry Street Fish Market, has been in the business for more than 40 years but Oct. 26 still represented a first for him – a lobster with both male and female parts!

A close look at the lobster shows a row of eggs lining one side of the lobster's underbelly, while the other side has typical male parts. A ship called the William Bowe, which is captained by Smith's brother-in-law, caught the lobster 200 miles offshore.