Meet Haddie! She is a Cotton Candy lobster who was caught by Lobsterman Bill. She is named after Bills granddaughter. The odds of a Cotton Candy lobster being caught is 1 in 100 Million! Know of an aquarium that she could call home? Send us a DM! pic.twitter.com/I8P38qElef
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A lobsterman pulled an ultra-rare lobster out of the water.
Bill Coppersmith found a lobster the color of cotton candy in his net last week in Maine’s Casco Bay. This lobster color has not been seen in the wild for years.
“It is so rare; there’s only 1 in 100 million caught,” Mark Murrell, CEO of Get Maine Lobster, said in a video about the catch.
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Coppersmith named the lobster Haddie after his granddaughter. The lobsterman has been catching crustaceans for 40 years.
Haddie will soon be shipped to the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, New Hampshire, to live out the rest of her days.
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According to National Geographic, it is unclear how many cotton candy-colored lobsters live in the wild. Scientists believe the unique color originates from a genetic condition known as leucism, a partial loss of pigmentation.
The last known lobster lacking pigmentation in this way was caught in 2018 by a Canadian lobsterman who then donated to the Huntsman Marine Science Centre aquarium in Saint Andrews, according to the Portland Press-Herald.
