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This Fisher Man Catches a Rare ‘Cotton Candy’ Lobster and Now He Wants to Free Him in the Ocean

Last November, lobsterman Robinson Russell was taken aback by what he discovered in his trap.

Russell told The Dodo, “I reside on a little island off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada called Grand Manan.” “I’ve been fishing for almost 20 years and this is the first one of that color I’ve ever seen.”

Lucky the lobster couldn’t help but stand out from the throng, with his brilliant, almost transparent shell gleaming with hues of pastel blue and purple.

Credit: HUNTSMAN MARINE SCIENCE CENTER

Lucky is not albino, despite the fact that he seems white at times. He’s been dubbed the “cotton candy” lobster because of his unusual rainbow coloring.

According to the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute, a lobster like Lucky is one in a hundred million, and Russell believed he’d never see another capture like it.

According to Cynthia Callahan, manager of the Huntsman Marine Science Center, the lobster’s distinctive brownish-green colour is generated by the expression of various pigments in his shell. Lucky’s distinctive coloration is caused by a genetic mutation that causes one or more of the red, blue, or yellow pigments in the shell to show through. Lobsters come in a variety of colors, and Russell has seen lobsters that were brilliant orange, blue, and yellow all arrive from the same sea.

Lucky, on the other hand, was the rarest of all.

Credit: HUNTSMAN MARINE SCIENCE CENTER

Russell was well aware that Lucky was unique, and he couldn’t bear the thought of the exotic animal ending up on someone’s plate.

Russell added, “We called it Lucky on the way in, and I shared a couple photographs of it on Instagram.” “I couldn’t bear the thought of selling it, so I donated it to the Huntsman [Marine] Aquarium in St. Andrews, where it will now spend the remainder of its days.”

While we hope that this lobster returns to the wild one day, Russell’s charity has given him a second shot at life.