PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — When a  100-pound shipment of lobsters arrived at Bill Sarro's seafood shop and  restaurant last month, it contained a surprise — six orange crustaceans that  have been said to be a 1-in-10-million oddity.

"My butcher was unloading them  and said, 'Oh, my gosh, boss, they sent us cooked dead lobsters,'" said Sarro,  owner of Fresh Catch Seafood in Mansfield, Mass. "He then picked one up and it  crawled up his arm."

Reports of odd-colored lobsters  used to be rare in the lobster fishing grounds of New England and Atlantic  Canada. Normal lobsters are a mottled greenish-brown.

But in recent years, accounts of  bright blue, orange, yellow, calico, white and even split lobsters — one color  on one side, another on the other — have jumped. It's now common to hear several  stories a month of a lobsterman bringing one of the quirky crustaceans  to shore.

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