While sorting through Friday's catch, the employees of The Lobster Pot Restaurant on Cranberry Highway found a rare treasure: A yellow lobster.

"We see a lot of lobsters, but in 35 years I've have never seen a yellow one," explained restaurant owner Guy Marino.

The chances of coming across a yellow lobster are one in 30 million.

Owners Guy and Joe Marino said the one-and-a-half pound yellow lobster was mixed in with the delivery fishermen gave the restaurant on Friday. They decided that donating the rare crustacean was a better alternative to cooking him.

On Monday, the lobster was picked up and brought to the National Marine Fisheries Service for the Woods Hole aquarium and research center.

Rachel Metz, Senior Aquarist at the center, said she had only seen photos of this breed of lobster before Monday. She said yellow lobsters get their color from a rare genetic mutation.