Blue lobster

IT WAS a snappy surprise when Bangor fisherman Stuart Brown pulled out an extremely rare blue lobster from the waters of Belfast Lough.

If you catch a rare lobster or a female with eggs you have to mark a 'V' on its tail and that way if it is caught again by someone else they will know to put it back into the water." I took some pictures for our business Seafresh's Facebook page for people to see and the story really took off. It was very undersized and we returned it to the water afterwards so it's still out there in it's natural habitat.

The odds of catching the rare creature has been estimated by marine biologists to be over 2,000,000/1. Stuart Brown, 28, from Bangor, Co Down, said he could not ...

Hopefully if someone else does catch it, they’ll return it as well.’ He said the blue lobster has now been added to the list of ‘weird and wonderful things’ he has seen while out at sea. In both cases, the fisherman returned the creature to the waters after catching it. The experienced skipper, who has been fishing since the age of 11, said the bright blue lobster was just below the allowable size to keep, so, after taking some pictures of the rare crustacean, he had to release it back into the water. The creature was found lying in the waters close to Blackhead Lighthouse, on the northern shores of Belfast Lough. A fisherman who captured a rare blue lobster off the coast of Northern Ireland has described it as the catch of a lifetime.

Well, maybe not. The little creature landed by Bangor fisherman Stuart Brown in Belfast Lough is a one in two million quirk of genetics. But at least it looks ...

The little creature landed by Bangor fisherman Stuart Brown in Belfast Lough is a one in two million quirk of genetics. There’s not too many walking around with skin as red as a lobster these days. But at least it looks the part for the faithful NI winter weather.

Some marine biologists have estimated the odds of catching the rare crustacean - whose colour is caused by a genetic defect - at two million to one. Stuart ...

'It's still out in the lough somewhere, swimming about as happy as can be. I looked up Google to see how rare it was, and it was a one in two million chance of catching it.' 'But then I did look at it again.