Rare Electric-Blue Lobster

By Adrienne Crezo in Animals & Pets on Jun 3, 2011 at 9:06 am

Only one in four million lobsters is blue, a genetic mutation in coloring that makes for an interesting-looking creature. This blue lobster was caught Wednesday off the shores of Prince Edward Island, the only one since 2009. Blair Doucette, the fisherman who nabbed the beauty, says he has never caught a blue lobster in his 30 years of fishing. He is considering donating the lobster to a local aquarium.

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  1. HSDell
    Jun 3rd, 2011 at 9:13 am

    How about just putting it back?!

  2. Will L
    Jun 3rd, 2011 at 10:39 am

    They have a lot more of these in northwestern France.

  3. EmC
    Jun 3rd, 2011 at 11:55 am

    Crayfish turn up this color more often (I assume) I had a blue one as a pet for quite awhile. His name was Craig, and he was lovely. Looked just like the one in the pic, but at 1/8th scale.

  4. Gauldar
    Jun 3rd, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    This may be the start of a new restaurant chain.

  5. Caroline
    Jun 3rd, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    The Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ has a couple of these – they said a blue lobster is an albino.

  6. onetimenick
    Jun 3rd, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    And this one gets a free pass to an aquarium because it’s tone was different than the others?

    Racism is so strange.

  7. the monkey
    Jun 3rd, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    ack! quit throwing the word ‘racism’ around where it doesn’t belong. there’s no difference in race – they’re lobsters. now, if you want to call it a ‘lobster of color (other than red)’, then you might have something to grasp at.

  8. Rafael
    Jun 4th, 2011 at 5:35 am

    I need to publish my town now, because in Valencia, Spain, there’s a blue lobster that we call (Blue) Llamàntol (there’re browns too). It tastes better with rice. Here’s the recipe: http://va.comunitatvalenciana.com/gastronomia-receta/val-arros-caldos- amb-llamantol-blau/27961

    And the Wikipedia commons entry: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Homarus?uselang=ca

  9. ted
    Jun 4th, 2011 at 10:25 am

    Also in the news that day: PEI nail polish company denies charges of illegal dumping.

  10. luckylee
    Jun 4th, 2011 at 11:28 am

    There was another blue lobster caught off the coast of Bourne, MA in 2009 too. You can see/read about it in one of the Cape Cod Times blogs here: http://blogs.capecodonline.com/cape-cod-photography/2009/02/18/blue-lo bsters-and-darwin/
    The guy who caught it sent the lobster to the NOAA Aquarium in Woods Hole.

  11. Beny
    Jun 4th, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    How did that fisherman lose his thumb?


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