Haddie is now being housed in a tank at Get Maine Lobster until they can find a local aquarium or sanctuary to adopt her.

A unique blue and pink colored lobster, dubbed a “cotton candy lobster” due to its likeness to the fluffy food’s color, was caught by a lobsterman for Get Maine Lobster on Friday in Casco Bay, Maine.

According to experts, only 1 in 100 million lobsters have this rare shell color.

“We were just hauling – as I’ve done for the last 40 years – and we just came across some lobsters in some traps… and there was a strange color in the trap,” lobsterman Bill Coppersmith explained.

“Didn’t know if it was a toy lobster or what the heck it was.”

Bill Coppersmith, who captured this rare lobster, has been doing this for over 40 years. He named the lobster Haddy after his 8-year-old granddaughter.

Bill Coppersmith has caught his third unique lobster. He caught a white lobster in 1997 and an orange lobster a few years ago, whom he named Eli after his grandson.

“I work with a couple hundred [lobstermen],” Murrell said. “B“I got three grandkids so I got to do one more rare lobster,” Coppersmith said.

“I gotta get another one for my grandson, Liam. I don’t know, maybe purple this time?”

Haddy is a female lobster, about seven years old. Haddie is now being housed in a tank at Get Maine Lobster until they can find a local aquarium or sanctuary to adopt her.

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

— Get Maine Lobster 🦞 (@getmainelobster) November 9, 2021

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