What was meant to be a celebratory ending for an egg-carrying Maine lobster that was rescued from a restaurant in Utah has taken a sad turn.
“Claudia” as she was called, was rescued from a Red Lobster restaurant tank in St. George, Utah, after employees noticed she was carrying thousands of eggs, which made the lobster federally protected.
NOAA says lobsters can take up to a year to fertilize their eggs, so when Claudia was caught, it may not have been clear she was expecting.
So, a plan was hatched to have her sent back to Portland via FedEx on Friday morning.
CBS 13 was there when she arrived. Unfortunately, it was clear Claudia didn’t survive the journey.
Ready Seafood in Portland did release five other lobsters into Casco Bay, some of them bright orange.