Overview

• A shopper spotted the live, unusually colored lobster on a store shelf and alerted the nonprofit.
• The organization says it obtained the supermarket’s permission before removing the animal for release.
• Director John di Leonardo transported the lobster by boat and posted a Facebook video of the return to coastal waters.
• The lobster, nicknamed “Jean-Clawd Van Dam,” is described as a roughly one-in-30-million color variant, citing National Geographic.
• Humane Long Island highlights its claim that about 100 million lobsters are killed annually in the U.S. and argues the animals feel pain and suffer in confinement.