Two albino lobsters caught in one week

Two albino lobsters sat in a crate with other lobsters at Owls Head Lobster Company in Owls Head, Maine on Friday.Elizabeth Watkinson/Owls Head Lobster Company/Associated Press/Associated Press

Two midcoast Maine lobstermen caught two rare albino lobsters within a week.

Bret Philbrick caught one off of Owls Head on Thursday, The Portland Press Herald reported, and Joe Bates caught one off the Rockland breakwater a few days earlier.

Albino lobsters are believed to be about one in 100 million.

The lobsters are in a crate at Owls Head Lobster Co. One will go to the Maine State Aquarium in Boothbay Harbor and the other to Brooks Trap Mill in Thomaston.

The lobsters are under legal size and would normally have to be returned to the ocean, but the Maine Marine Patrol made an exception.

Two rare albino lobsters flanked a rare yellow lobster on a deck in Owls Head, Maine.Elizabeth Watkinson/Owls Head Lobster Company/Associated Press/Associated Press