Maine man catches rare yellow lobster off coast of Maine island

VINALHAVEN, Maine —

A rare yellow-colored lobster was recently caught off a Maine island.

Kaleb Dyer said he caught the yellow lobster, a hardshell male, off Vinalhaven and shared a video and photographs of the crustacean with WMTW. Advertisement

According to the New England Aquarium, the odds of a naturally occurring yellow lobster are about 1 in 30 million.

In February 2021, a yellow lobster named Banana was caught by Tenants Harbor lobsterman Marley Bobb, who donated it to the University of New England.

UNE marine sciences professor Markus Frederich has been working on noninvasive ways to extract genetic samples from lobsters to better understand the molecular basis for rare shell coloration .

Frederich maintains a collection of strange-colored lobsters at the university's labs