Luke Rand, 36, has been fishing since he was 16, and his father Mark has been fishing for greater than 40 years. But they’ve by no means caught something corresponding to what they did final week off the coast of Maine.
In Casco Bay on August 11, the pair caught a uncommon, bright blue lobster, they advised native newspaper the Portland Press Herald. Luke Rand mentioned it seemed to be the authorized dimension and was a healthy-looking male.
“We’ve never pulled one this color or even seen one to throw back,” Rand advised the outlet, saying that once they confirmed it to their seller, individuals could not assist however take pictures. “It’s not something that you see every day.”
The father and son plan on preserving the lobster in a tank on the household’s fashionable Portland restaurant, Becky’s Diner.
This is not the primary blue lobster discovered of Casco Bay. Last 12 months, a lobsterman discovered a feminine lobster with a shell that resembled blue cotton sweet, in accordance with Smithsonian Magazine.
In 2014, 14-year-old Meghan LaPlante and her father caught a blue lobster south of Portland, Maine.
According to the New England Aquarium, wild blue lobsters are a couple of very uncommon one-in-2 million discovery. The aquarium bought its personal resident blue lobster in February 2020 and has additionally had resident lobsters of various colours, together with yellow, orange and even calico.
Most lobsters are a greenish-brown shade, in accordance with the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute, however “not very often,” they appear blue, yellow, white, and even a mixture of colours. All lobsters, besides these which can be white, will flip crimson when they’re cooked, the institute mentioned.
In Gloucester, Massachusetts, final 12 months, one other lobsterman discovered a blue lobster. CBS Boston reported that the person introduced the lobster aboard a fishing vessel to take pictures earlier than releasing it again to the ocean.
