How many did he find, did he find them in several locations, and did he
find normal looking yellow perch along with them?
Have you considered this is a mutation? A few years back I was working at
a salmon hatchery that was doing unique breeding methods. They crossed one
male with one female and kept the progeny separated until release. This
was for a purpose that isn't necessary to go into here. But what was neat
was that you could observe the progeny from a particular cross. One
pairing of normal looking coho salmon adults produced young that were
purple and spotted, rather than silver/gold/brown with vertical parr
marks. Had you seen the young you might have wondered what sort of hybrid
creation they were. I had some formalin and preserved some of them because
they were so strikingly different from normal salmon.
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