An someone who has spent their entire life fishing tossed the extremely unusual and completely blue crab back into the ocean, despite the fact that scientists estimate that the likelihood of this happening is approximately one in two million.

When a fisherman successfully plucked an extremely rare blue lobster from the water, he was left speechless and in a state of shock.

“The catch was a surprise to everybody,” said Stuart Brown, who is 28 years old and hails from Bangor, which is located in County Down in Northern Ireland.

After having been raised in a pot off the northern coast of the lough, the extraordinary creature was discovered close to the Blackhead Lighthouse.

It was, however, impossible to keep the lobster because it was too small, and he was compelled to let it back into the ocean after he had taken his photographs.

He said: “It’s still out in the lough somewhere, swimming about as happy as can be. Hopefully, if someone else does catch it, they’ll return it as well.”

His boat was in deep water at the time of the catch – around 15-18 metres.

Describing the find, he said: “I slid the pot down to the crewman who lifted it out and he made a comment: ‘That’s very blue’.

“I looked at him and said: ‘Yeah, no problem.’ But then I did look at it again and said: ‘That’s too blue.’”

He was already an experienced fisherman, having begun his career when he was 11 years old. He continued by saying, “You would get lobsters out there that don’t look normal, they’d be a bit browner or redder, just something different with them, but nothing that extreme.”

I did some research on Google to find out how uncommon it was, and I discovered that there was a one-in-two million chance of contracting it.

One of the shareholders in the County Down seafood entire business stated that it was now one of the “weird and wonderful things” that he could cross off his list of items found in the water.

Genetic differences can make some lobsters come out in a different colour to the more commonly found brown or red variety.

The difference means that certain proteins are made at different rates from others.

Scientists reckon that the chance of catching a blue lobster is about one in two million, meaning it really was Stuart’s lucky day.