A rare sight made landfall in a lobsterman’s trap Saturday.
Jay LaPlante with the Miss Meghan’s Lobster Catch company caught a blue lobster around 10:45 a.m. ET Saturday off Pine Point here, about 10 miles southwest of Portland, Maine.
LaPlante and his 14-year-old daughter, Meghan, were hauling traps when she discovered the 2-pound cerulean crustacean, the first time they’ve ever caught a blue lobster.
The find is like winning the lottery: Oceanographers estimate that only 1 in 2 million lobsters is blue, according to Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. The coloration comes from a genetic defect that causes the lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein. Every other lobster is a dark green or brown until they hit boiling water.
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Story: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/23/blue-lobster-caught/14506607/