Cruise ship diners may be throwing lobsters overboard to ‘save’ animals — foxnews.com

Cruise ship passengers may be trying to save their lobster dinner. (iStock) Fisherman on England’s Northern coast have been finding a curious catch in their nets recently—Canadian lobster. The Homarus Americanus is native to the Atlantic ocean, just off the North American coast—3,500 miles away from the U.K. Are the lobsters just taking a leisurely swim across the pond? Researchers now believe passengers aboard Atlantic-crossing cruise ships have actually been buying live lobsters and, in a misguided effort of animal rights activism, throwing them overboard in an effort to save the crustaceans, reports the Daily Mail. Many of the lobsters caught still have the rubber bands around the their claws, according to local fishermen.

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