Fisherman catches ultra-rare blue lobster
Fisherman catches ultra-rare blue lobster
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A fisherman in Cornwall, England caught a rare blue lobster. The fishermen named Tom Lambourn was fishing off the coast of Penzance. He caught a incredibly rare ‘one-in-two-million’ crustacean in his lobster pot. Blue lobsters get their unusual colour due to a genetic defect. This causes them to produce excess levels of a protein that combines with a molecule called astaxanthin, which creates a blue complex known as crustacyanin.

Lambourn shared some pictures of the ultra-rare blue lobster and threw it back into the sea as it was “too small to bring into land”. Tom sharing this incident quoted that “With every pot, you never know what is going to be inside, and I’ve certainly never seen one that colour before. This is only my second fishing season so I think I’ve been very lucky. I measured it and it was undersized so there was never any thought of keeping it. If it had been bigger, I would have taken it to the National Hatchery.” He also said that while he sent some photos of the lobster they told him it is one-in-two-million so that is quite special. The staff at the National Lobster Hatchery were surprised to look at the brilliant blue hue of the lobster. A Hatchery spokesperson said, “It is a pretty rare colour morph to come across, about one in two million chance, so we were amazed when Tom sent us the photo of it. The lobster was too small to bring in to land so was popped back in the sea so it can keep growing. Who knew that a crustacean could be so vibrant?”

Ben Marshall, the supervisor at the National Lobster Hatchery, added, “It is very, very rare and very interesting to see a blue lobster.” He further said, “Blue lobsters have a different colour pigmentation in their shells which means they find it much harder to camouflage so they get preyed upon, reducing their numbers.”

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