Blue Lobster Caught in Ocean

Type: Ocean
Region: Eastern
Location: Outside of Ocean City

This blue lobster was caught off Maryland Atlantic Ocean by a commercial fisherman this week! There�s about a 1 in 2,000,000 chance that a lobster will be blue � aside from it�s color, its just like any other lobster.

DNR Response: A blue lobster or brilliant blue colored blue crab is caused by a genetic defect causing an imbalance of proteins in the shell of lobsters and crabs that are responsible for normal coloration. The excessive amount of one of the color proteins can form a blue complex that occurs about once in every 2 million lobsters. Lobsters can also be yellow or orange which occurs about once in every 30 million lobsters; albino color in lobsters occurs about once in 100 million lobsters. Lobsters may also exhibit these abnormal colors in a situation where only half of the lobster is abnormally colored and the other half normal. No matter what color a lobster or crab is, they all will turn red when coloration proteins break down during cooking.