One-in-two-million catch: Rare blue lobster trapped in Maine

[spaminator]

One-in-two-million catch: Rare blue lobster trapped in Maine
REUTERS
First posted: Monday, August 25, 2014 04:55 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 25, 2014 05:13 PM EDT
A Maine teenager and her father have landed a one-in-two-million catch - a blue lobster.
Meghan LaPlante, 14, said she and her father pulled in the vivid blue crustacean from one of their traps on Saturday.
"It definitely stood out," LaPlante said on Monday. "We were really surprised. I've never caught anything like it."
LaPlante helps her father run the family's Miss Meghan's Lobster Catch business in Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
The blue color is the result of a rare genetic mutation that causes the lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein.
Most lobsters are dark bluish green to greenish brown. Scientists estimate the blue coloring occurs in only one out of 2 million lobsters.
LaPlante and her father have agreed to donate the lobster to the Maine State Aquarium.
LaPlante said she named the lobster "Skyler" for its blue color, and because it's one of her favorite names.
Meghan LaPlante, 14, said she and her father pulled in a vivid blue lobster from one of their traps on Saturday. (Facebook photo)

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[tay]

One week after a Maine teen and her dad caught a rare blue lobster near Portland, farther up the coast veteran lobsterman Joe Bates discovered what researchers consider a 1-in-100-million find: a white lobster.


"When the trap broke the water, it stuck right out. And I was really surprised and a little bit excited just to see it," Bates told New England Cable News. He caught it Aug. 30.


Then on Thursday a couple of miles to the northwest, lobsterman Bret Philbrick caught a second albino crustacean off the breakwater in Rockland.




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[bill barilko]

They still taste just like big tough Prawns-a totally underwhelming meal.

 

[Ludlow]

They still taste just like big tough Prawns-a totally underwhelming meal.

You wouldn't by some chance be related to that gal on SNL Debbie Downer would ye?

 

[55Mercury]

do they all still turn red when ya cook 'em?