Most people would probably keep anything they caught if it was a one in a million find. Alex Todd of Chebeague Island, Maine, made such a catch while on a fishing trip when he nabbed a translucent lobster.
“I’ve never seen a white one. This one was translucent with just a hint of blue in it,” Todd told ABC News.
It’s very likely the lobster had a partial loss of pigmentation from a condition called leucism and wasn’t fully albino since it had partial blue coloring.
“It was really different and really cool,” said Todd, a 10th generation fisherman who’s had his lobster license since he was 6 years old.
Todd threw the lobster back because it was a female and had been marked for carrying eggs. He says he would have still thrown it back even if it had been a male because of how odd it was.
