I have not seen it in a primary source. My memory of the account I did
see was that it was a contract in which A was borrowing B's indentured
servants, and agreeing not to feed them lobster more than X days a week.
I've heard a similar story for sturgeon, i.e. loggers signing
contracts for eating sturgeon only three days a week. Don't recall
seeing a primary source on this story either...

And there is a similar urban legend about a contract for servants in
London in the 18th or 19th century, the fish being salmon. No primary
source I know of for that one, either.

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