DHAKA: Two Canadian fishermen have been celebrating catching bright blue lobsters over the last few days.

But how exceptional these striking-looking crustaceans are, asks Justin Parkinson.

Lobsters caught off the Atlantic coast of North America aren’t usually very bright. They tend to be a murky, greeny-brown, until they are boiled, when they turn the orangey-pink familiar to diners with high disposable incomes.

So two fishermen off the coast of Nova Scotia made the news when they caught not one, but two vivid blue lobsters in quick series, 150km apart.

Among the region’s fishermen, it’s traditionally considered to be a sign of good fortune.

The probability of the creature having this coloring is widely touted as being one in two million.

The University of Maine Lobster Institute is among those to have quoted these odds in the past, though its executive director, Rob Bayer, admits they are merely a ‘guess’.

‘The chances of this happening nobody really knows,’ Rob added, reports the BBC.

BDST: 1351 HRS, May 25, 2016
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