Extremely rare blue lobster found off coast of English village:

It was something however your typical catch. An English fisherman found an especially rare sea creature in a single of his traps over the weekend – an electric blue lobster. 

Chris Puckey instructed CBS News associate BBC that he found the brilliant blue crustacean off the coast of the fishing village of Polperro in southern Cornwall. Blue lobsters are believed to be about one in two million occurrences within the ocean, in line with the New England Aquarium. 

Andrew Hebda, former curator of zoology on the Museum of Natural History in Nova Scotia, beforehand instructed the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation {that a} lobster is sort of a portray. 

“You’re doing some water colors and you take a bit of blue, you take a bit of yellow, you take a bit of red and you take a bit of green and poof, mix them all together and what do you have? Mud. Which is what your normal lobster is,” he mentioned. “What happened here is that we don’t seem to have those other three pigments in there… you’re looking at a genetic mutation that has suppressed those colors.”

Jacqueline Spencer, a fishmonger and proprietor of Kitty’s Lobster, Crab & Seafood Shack, which serves regionally caught seafood in Polperro, instructed the BBC that Puckey known as her after discovering the catch. 

“After short deliberation … we decided that rather than returning it to the sea because we were concerned that it may get caught again in another pot or even be eaten by another lobster, that we would try to secure it somewhere that it could live out its life peacefully and be protected by predators,” Spencer instructed the BBC.

So Spencer contacted an area aquarium, and “they jumped at the chance to rehome it.” 

Spencer mentioned that the lobster is a feminine and would have bought for about £25 (roughly $31) given its weight, saying she “paid the lobster fisherman very well for that lobster.” 

“It’s a vivid blue color,” she mentioned. “It’s absolutely stunning.”

Last September, a rare periwinkle blue lobster was caught in Marblehead, Massachusetts. That similar month, a blue lobster was found in France.