The Time We Caught a Blue Lobster — One in Two Million Chance!
Just Another Day At Sea
Last summer, 10 miles off the coast, in the middle of Massachusetts Bay is where you could have found me. Just an average day of lobstering the F/V Shooting star. But today, today would not end up being average at all. As I recall, we were fishing in about 370 feet of water over rocky bottom. It was three traps into our seventeenth trawl. The trap came up, and something happened that had never happened to us before. A blue lobster was crawling around in the back end of the trap amongst the other lobsters. We carefully picked it up and banded it. After, we placed it in a separate tank so that nothing would happen to it during the steam in. We brought it back to the dock, but never thought about selling it! I mean, how could we... isn't it beautiful.
Although not as rare, we also caught this discolored lobster the same year. Pretty cool!
Which discoloration do you think is more interesting?
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@modernsuperior being Massachusetts born and raised and having a passion for the sea as well as seafood this is one of the most amazing things I have seen! Lobstering in general is a tough industry, but coming up with a BLUE lobster is mind blowing.
I wonder how rare blue lobsters like this really are! Do you have an idea!?
A quick Google search gives numbers such as 1/2,000,000, so they are pretty rare. However, they has not really been any studies on the frequency, so all numbers you come across are guesses and estimates, not actual numbers.
Awesome!!!! FULL STEEM AHEAD!!!!!
That is really cool! Finding blue lobsters are extremely rare, as I'm sure you are aware of, seeing as you have a fishing background! But thanks for sharing this story and the photos with us ;)
Whattt? I didn't know this was a thing O_O! Dopee
Happy to show you!
It sounds like achievement in some RPG :)
I wouldn't mind that title!
You definitely deserve it ;)
I have never seen this before. Good post
I spend much of my summer on Cape Cod every year and remember when I was much younger that a local fisherman caught a blue lobster and put it in a tank on display at a local restaurant. I remember my dad taking me to see it and it drew quite a crowd to the restaurant. They really are beautiful creatures
I'm glad I could provide you with that happy flashback!
Did you ask him why he was so blue?
must of had a tough day! ahhaha
Are those really the odds of pulling a blue Lobster?
That's what they say! But who could know for sure?
Im blue daba dee daba doo.
Blue lobster?? I 've never even heard of such a thing! Very cool.
I hadn't either.. until we caught it!