Meghan LaPlante catches rare blue lobster off the coast of Maine
Published in Weird News
PINE POINT, Maine (UPI) -- A 14-year-old girl in Maine caught an extremely rare blue lobster while out to sea with her father.
On Saturday, Jay LaPlante of the Miss Meghan Lobster Catch company was retrieving lobster traps off the coast of Pine Point, Maine, with his daughter and company namesake Meghan when the 14-year-old retrieved a trap with a rare blue lobster.
"It definitely stood out," LaPlante told the Portland Press Herald. As it should have -- researchers estimate only one in every two million lobsters are born with blue coloring.
Meghan named the crustacean Skyler and plans to donate it to the Maine State Aquarium in West Boothbay Harbor.
Her student lobstering license allows her to set 150 traps per year, a number that will double when she obtains her commercial license next year.
One-in-two-million catch: Rare blue lobster trapped in Maine. (No, it's not getting eaten) http://t.co/fLXOeiy6WT pic.twitter.com/mLifHu25Ve— Canoe (@Canoe) August 25, 2014
Maine blue lobster find could be a one-in-2-million specimen, experts say http://t.co/eSWz9gmYRh pic.twitter.com/9cJI39pmWG— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 25, 2014
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