Second albino lobster caught o Cape Breton this season

Albert Leahy can nally say he has caught the rarest of the rare after 30 years of lobster fishing aboard his boat the John Ray.

For the rst time in his career he caught a lobster of colour — a crystal lobster, also called albino or white — and only one in every 100 million are that colour.

While he has heard of other shermen catching other coloured lobsters off the coast of Louisbourg, Leahy said he hasn’t heard of anyone catching an albino one.

“I was teasing Robert Levy, he caught three blue ones, I said, anyone can catch a blue one,” the 60-year-old said.

“I was just saying this year I probably won’t see (a lobster of colour) before I retire.”

e catch is a highlight of his career, along with the time him and his shing mate, Denis Organ, saved a sea turtle that was tangled in the lines of a trap. But it was the sight of the albino lobster that really struck Leahy.

“ ere were little touches of blue on this lobster… you could almost see through it.”

Although white lobsters are very rare, this isn’t the rst one caught o Cape Breton shore since the season opened on May 9. Logan Truckair and the crew aboard his father’s boat, Temporary Home, pulled one in on May 20 while shing in Glace Bay.

It was the rst time the a fourthgeneration lobster sherman had heard of one being pulled out of the waters in that area but said his father, Robert Truckair, had seen some while working in Yarmouth earlier in his 35-year career.

“It’s really cool actually. It looks amazing. I thought it was fake when it came out of the water,” the 22-year-old said.