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Rare blue lobster caught off Beverly

It’s a one-in-2-million find.

This blue lobster turned up off of Beverly. Tom Birarelli

It’s a one-in-2-million find.

Lobsterman Tom Birarelli caught a blue lobster fishing at Halfway Rock, about 10 miles from Beverly Harbor, The Boston Globe reported.

“I called my other two deckhands over and I was like, ‘Guys, you won’t believe this,’ and we were just astonished,’’ Birarelli told the Globe.

This is the first time Birarelli, a fourth-generation lobsterman, has caught a blue lobster.

Read the full story in the Globe.

This 23-year-old lobsterwoman from Maine is her own boss:

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