Beverly lobsterman catches rare blue lobster

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The brilliant blue lobster turned up off of Beverly.

Beverly lobsterman catches rare blue lobster
By Erica Moser Globe Correspondent October 26, 2015

Tom Birarelli can now say something many lobstermen can’t: he caught a blue lobster — a 1 in 2 million find.

He caught the shellfish Sunday while fishing by Halfway Rock, about 10 miles from Beverly Harbor, with his deckhands Mike Rotondo and Chris Crowell.

Birarelli pulled up the trawl, which Crowell said usually has 20 to 30 lobsters in it, and saw the brilliant blue lobster near the bottom.

“I called my other two deckhands over and I was like, ‘Guys, you won’t believe this,’ and we were just astonished,” he said.