A fisherman in the United States, Lars-Johan Larsson, recently caught an extremely rare blue lobster, said to have a two million to one chance.
Mr Larson shared a photo of the creature on Sunday, saying: “This blue lobster was caught off the coast of Portland yesterday and returned to the water to continue growing.” His tweet quickly went viral with over 516,000 likes and 43,000 retweets.
Take a look at the image below:
This blue Lobster was caught off the coast of Portland yesterday and returned to the water to continue growing. Blue lobsters are one in two million. pic.twitter.com/6chTk7PoLP
— Lars-Johan Larsson (@LarsJohanL) July 3, 2022
The message stunned internet users. One user wrote: “I was “years old today” when I discovered blue lobsters.” Another said, “Oh my god, NEVER seen this…wonder what they are blue,…instead of red.” A third user jokingly wrote: “You know his friends say, ‘Oh boy, here comes Frank! Always gets caught and released because he’s blue. What a mess!’”
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Some users even shared that they, too, had captured the rare creature. “Caught a blue one in the summer of 1993 in the Long Island Sound. We donated it to an aquarium so it would last a very long time. It was so beautiful to watch,” one user wrote. “We caught a blue lobster 15 years ago in North Haven, ME. We also let it go,” said another.
Most lobsters are a muddy brown or red color. However, according to the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, a blue lobster is very rare and the odds of finding one are one in two million.
Blue lobsters are so colored because of a genetic abnormality that makes them produce more of one protein than others.
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