Since he was 16 years old, Luke Rand, now 36, has been fishing, and his father Mark has been fishing for more than 40 years.
But nothing like what they captured last week off the coast of Maine has ever been caught before.
They informed the Portland Press Herald that they grabbed a rare, vivid blue lobster in Casco Bay on August 11.
It seemed to be a healthy-looking man and the legal size, according to Luke Rand.
When they brought it to their dealer, folks couldn’t resist but snap pictures, according to Rand, who said that they had never pulled one this colour or even seen one to toss back. “You don’t see stuff like that every day.”
The lobster will be kept in a tank inside Becky’s Diner, the family’s well-known Portland eatery, by the father and son.
This is not Casco Bay’s first blue lobster discovery.
According to Smithsonian Magazine, a lobsterman discovered a female lobster last year with a shell that looked like blue cotton candy.
Meghan LaPlante, then 14 years old, and her father snagged a blue lobster south of Portland, Maine, in 2014.
The New England Aquarium estimates that finding a wild blue lobster is around one in two million times unusual.
In February 2020, the aquarium welcomed a blue lobster as a permanent resident, joining other colourful lobsters including yellow, orange, and even calico.
According to the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute, lobsters are often greenish-brown in hue.
However, “not very frequently,” they may also seem blue, yellow, white, or even a combination of several colours.
According to the institution, all lobsters will become red when cooked, with the exception of those that are white.
Another lobsterman discovered a blue lobster in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the previous year.
According to CBS Boston, the guy photographed the lobster before releasing it back into the water while it was on board a fishing boat.