The skipper said the lobster was just below the allowable size to keep, so, after taking some pictures of the rare crustacean, he released it back into the water
Some marine biologists have estimated the odds of catching a blue lobster at around two million to one.
"You would get lobsters out there that don't look normal, they'd be a bit browner or redder, just something different with them, but nothing that extreme.The pot had been lying in the waters close to Blackhead Lighthouse on the northern shores of Belfast Lough. "I've never seen one - other fishermen I've spoken to who are a lot older than me, they said the same, that they haven't seen any ever, so it's a surprise to everybody it's came in on the east coast," he said.
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