A Digby fisherman has hauled in a surprising catch.
Jason Farstad hauled in a split-colour lobster in his last trawl of the day, Wednesday, Oct. 17.
He was fishing about 2 miles off of Digby Gut.
In ten years of fishing, he has caught yellow and blue lobsters before but this was the first split-coloured one.
According to Wikipedia, the chances of catching a split-coloured are one in 50 million. It also suggests that all such lobsters are hermaphrodites; that is they have both male and female sexual organs.
(Richard Gaudet will confirm for us shortly if this lobster is also hermaphroditic.)
Estimates put blue lobsters at one in 2 million; red lobsters (the uncooked kind) at one in 10 million; yellow, orange or calico lobsters at one in 30 million, and albino lobsters at 1 in 100 million.
Waylon Mosher caught a blue lobster with an albino underside last year, Jeffrey Leeman also caught a blue lobster last year and in 2007.
jriley@digbycourier.ca
