Blue Lobster

It was quite a catch for one captain.

You’ve heard of the Red Lobster… …now get ready for the blue lobster. A lobsterman named Toby working for Captain Joe and Sons made the rare discovery off the shores of Gloucester, Massachusetts. After bringing the crustacean to shore for some photo ops, Toby decided to release the blue lobster back to sea. According to the Lobster Institute at...

The New England Aquarium has a new resident: a bright blue lobster. The Boston aquarium was recently gifted the colorful crustacean that was caught in the wild by Patriot Seafoods. It’s on display in the aquarium’s Isle of Shoals exhibit after a 30-day quarantine to ensure it’s healthy. The aquarium says incidence of blue lobsters in the wild is...

The blue lobster, found just once in every 2 million lobsters in the wild, is on view at the Aquarium’s Isle of Shoals exhibit — just in time for February school vacation week, the New England Aquarium said.