Although This Blue Lobster Looks Similar To Ours,

this one is a salt water crustacean,

the ones we keep live in fresh water, the one above was caught in May by Canadian lobster boat captain Bobby Stoddard, but it took till June 11th to hit the headlines, reported on CNN news, the find came as the pots were being pulled into the boat, when one of the men called out, 'hey, we got a pretty one in this trap!' I turned around and said, 'Holy smoke!' said Stoddard, 51, of Clarks Harbour, Nova Scotia, in the trap with three other, ordinary greenish-brown lobsters was a remarkably bright blue one, the first lobster of that hue Stoddard had seen in his 33 years of fishing for a living, 'this is the only one that I've ever seen,' he told CNN. 'and my dad has been a lobsterman of about 55 years, and he caught one about 45 years ago, but hadn't seen one since',


the chances of catching a blue lobster are it seems low, in 33 seasons of catching 3,000 lobster a day on a good day this is the first they have caught, according to the University of Maine Lobster Institute, blue lobsters are a one-in-2-million phenomenon, a genetic variation causes the lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein that gives it that azure aspect, as for the one that Bobby caught it is being kept till he decides what to do with it, either put it back or donate it to a public marine aquarium.