While most summer residents are getting ready to leave the Boothbay region, a new resident has arrived.

Skylar, a pound-and-three-quarter blue male lobster, arrived in August at the Maine State Aquarium in Boothbay Harbor. Aquarium Director Elaine Jones wrote in an email that Skylar didn't have to travel too far to get to his new digs.

Skylar was caught by 14-year-old Meghan LaPlante of Old Orchard Beach.

“(Meghan) has been lobstering for several years and has a student license that allows her to set 150 traps,” Jones said. “She pulls them three times a week and sells her catch out of her living room window with her business called 'Miss Meghan's Lobster Catch.'”

Aquarium Manager Aimee Hayden-Roderiques said Skylar was put on display last week and was doing well.

Blue lobsters are rare, but not so rare at the aquarium: Jones said scientists report the blue-hued crustaceans as one-in-a-million, while the aquarium receives five to six special-colored lobsters a year.

“However, Skylar is extremely vibrant with interesting dark blue patches on his claws, carapace and tail,” Jones said.

When the aquarium goes into winter mode, some of the lobsters are sent to classroom tanks while some are wintered-over, Jones said.