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Rare blue lobster found by 82-year-old N.S. fisherman returned to the water

June 20, 2024 Canada

A rare blue lobster found by an 82-year-old Nova Scotia fisherman has been returned to the water. Richard Power of Mulgrave, N.S., caught the 3.5 pound crustacean last week in Pirate Harbour. A CTV Atlantic viewer said it was the first blue lobster he had seen in his 70 years of fishing lobsters. The lobster was then put on display at the market to allow the public to take photos and it was “safely released” to the Strait of Canso, where it was originally caught, shortly after. Photos, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 06:48

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Catch of a lifetime: Rare blue lobster landed in Belfast Lough

February 7, 2023 International, International News

Stuart Brown 28, from Bangor, Co Down, said he could not believe his eyes when he pulled one of his lobster pots up onto the deck of his boat, the Huntress, last Friday. Some marine biologists have estimated the odds of catching a blue lobster at around two million to one. “We were sitting in about 50 to 60 feet of water and the fourth pot came up,” he recalled. “I sort of saw it, but I think I thought, ‘it’s just a lobster’. You could hear the tail going. “I slid the pot down to the crew man who lifted it out and he made a comment: ‘That’s very blue.’ >click to read< 08:21

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Our Lobsterman Toby Burnham Catches A Rare Blue Lobster! Of course, The world is going crazy!

July 19, 2021 International News, National, New England

He came in to Capt. Joe’s & Sons Inc to take pictures and is releasing it back to the ocean. The lobster is quite an eye catcher, but, Toby Burnham’s mustache? Wow! THAT is absolutely stunning! Photos, and links to other emerging press, located along the sidebar on the page, like CBS News National Morning Show Carries the Blue Lobster Story >click to read< 16:08

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Rare blue and cream colored lobster caught off New Hampshire coast

July 19, 2017 New England

Lobstermen catch thousands of the crustaceans every year, but every now and again a gem is found among the masses. On Monday, Rye, N.H., lobsterman Greg Ward caught a hard-shelled blue and cream colored lobster around 1 p.m. near the New Hampshire-Maine border. He originally thought he caught a rare albino lobster, but said he had rarely caught blue lobsters in his 32 years of commercial lobster fishing. “This one was not all the way white and not all the way blue,” Ward said. “I’ve never seen anything like it. Usually, the stronger lobsters are usually the reddish brown color but this one still had a hard shell.” click here to read the story 10:51

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Maine Can Kiss Cape Cod’s Ass With This “Rare” Blue Lobster!

August 25, 2014 New England

Oh hey isn’t that cute, a blue lobster and they named it and everything. How amazing that only one in two million lobsters are blue like that, what a crazy story. Hey Maine, why don’t you suck on this one in 30 million calico lobster that’s here on The Cape. Read more here! 18:17

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Brilliant blue lobster caught off Antigonish, N.S. by lobsterman Sheldon Trenholm

June 9, 2013 Canada

A rare blue lobster was caught in waters near Antigonish on Friday. Sheldon Trenholm of South River, N.S. was the lucky lobsterman who caught the brilliant blue crustacean near Monks Head. He took a few pictures, showed a few friends and then he threw it back because the lobster was too small to keep. continued @ cbcnews

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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