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‘One-in-a-million’ yellow fish found in New York

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‘One-in-a-million’ yellow fish found in New York
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We’ll call him mellow yellow. An  “exceptionally rare” yellow-colored burbot (Lota lota) was recently caught by a team of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) biologists in Oswego Harbor on Lake Ontario in Upstate New York. 



Fish Biologist Jake Cochran displays the uniquely colored burbot collected in Owego Harbor, NY. Image: Brian Weidel/USGS



Burbots are long fish that weigh about three to five pounds on average, and live in cold rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and

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