A rare bright orange lobster shares the tank with regular lobsters at the Fisherman’s Catch Seafood restaurant in Raymond, Maine, Thursday, July 23, 2015. Fisherman Bill Coppersmith, of Windham, Maine, caught the crustacean on Wednesday. Robert Bayer, executive director of The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, says the odds of catching an orange lobster are one in several million. Coppersmith caught a white lobster in 1997; a one-in-100 million catch. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
RAYMOND, Maine (AP) — A Maine lobsterman has caught a rare bright orange lobster, the second time he’s pulled an odd-colored crustacean from state waters.
Bill Coppersmith, of Windham, tells the Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/1MJXgxp ) he was out on the Gulf of Maine on Wednesday when he caught the orange lobster.
Robert Bayer, executive director of The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, says the odds of catching an orange lobster are one in several million.
Coppersmith caught a white lobster in 1997; a one-in-100 million catch.
Coppersmith has named the orange lobster “Captain Eli,” after his 4-year-old grandson. It will be kept at the Fishermens Catch, a restaurant and seafood market in Raymond, for about a month and then released.
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This story has been corrected to show that the name of the seafood market is Fishermens Catch, not Fisherman’s Catch.
A rare bright orange lobster shares the tank with regular lobsters at the Fisherman’s Catch Seafood restaurant in Raymond, Maine, Thursday, July 23, 2015. Fisherman Bill Coppersmith, of Windham, Maine, caught the crustacean on Wednesday. Robert Bayer, executive director of The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, says the odds of catching an orange lobster are one in several million. Coppersmith caught a white lobster in 1997; a one-in-100 million catch. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) 
