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Fishermen off the coast of Nova Scotia have been hauling up strange-coloured lobsters for years, but a rainbow lobster caught just before Christmas may top them all.

It was caught on Dec. 19 by Captain Chad Graham on the Chad & Sisters Two, sailing out of Westport, Brier Island.

Graham's sister, Amanda Graham, says he pulled the multi-coloured crustacean out of the water at the mouth of St. Marys Bay.

"He has caught all blue and yellow lobsters before, but this one was the most purple — with blues, yellow, and white — that's he's ever caught or seen," she said.

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