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"COTTON CANDY LOBSTERS ARE CERTAINLY A RARITY, ALTHOUGH IT'S UNCLEAR EXACTLY HOW MANY EXIST IN THE WILD..."

PICS INFO: Mega spotlight on a rare cotton-candy-colored lobster called "Haddie," an exceptionally rare, pearlescent pink and blue lobster discovered off the coast of Maine, USA in 2021, named by the lobsterman who found her, Bill Coppersmith, after his granddaughter. 📸: Get Maine Lobster.

MINI-OVERVIEW: "A Maine lobsterman recently made a one-in-a-hundred-million catch when he pulled up a rare lobster with a bright blue, speckled shell, the color of fairground cotton candy.

The lobsterman, Bill Coppersmith, caught the so-called cotton candy lobster on Nov. 5 in Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine. "Bill and his crew were extremely excited," said Mark Murrell, CEO of the seafood company Get Maine Lobster, for which Coopersmith is a contract fisherman. Coppersmith named the baby-blue crustacean Haddie, after his granddaughter, and he quickly alerted Get Maine Lobster of the catch, Murrell told Live Science in an email.

Cotton candy lobsters are certainly a rarity, although it's unclear exactly how many exist in the wild, according to National Geographic. That said, the whimsically colored crustaceans turn up about once every four to five years, Michael Tlusty, associate professor of sustainability and food solutions at the University of Massachusetts Boston, told National Geographic."

-- LIVE SCIENCE, "Rare "cotton candy" lobster was a 1-in-100 million catch, by Nicoletta Lanese, originally published November 12, 2021