Published July 20, 2010

A lobster in Boston Harbor (Jess Bidgood for WBUR)

When I rounded up the summer’s most predictable news stories, I failed to consider the lobster. There’s good coverage of our favorite summer delicacy around the Hub this week.

This morning NPR reported that life is good for Maine lobsters and lobster eaters — but not so much for lobstermen. Supply is so plentiful that prices are low. Meanwhile, the Boston Globe reports the same for lobstermen here in Massachusetts.

If you missed it, WBUR’s Curt Nickisch reported a fine piece from Boston Harbor as part of our ongoing series, “Looking Out.” Curt (and photographer Jess Bidgood) went out on the water at 4 in the morning to talk with commercial fishermen. You at least owe it to yourself to look at the sideshow.

And finally, you gotta see the “freak lobster” with three pincers in the Herald.

Update: Incredible albino lobster caught off Gloucester from the same guy who caught the three-pincered crustacean