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Tue 25 Jul, 2006 04:35 pm
LINCOLN, Neb. -- A rainbow trout fished out of Holmes Lake in Lincoln, Neb., on Dec. 17, 2005, features a double mouth. Clarence Olberding, 57, of Lincoln, wasn't just telling a fisherman's fib when he called over another angler to look at the two-mouthed trout. It weighed in at about a pound. Olberding, who plans to smoke and eat the fish, said the hook was in the upper mouth, and that the lower one did not appear to be functional. (12/22/05 AP photo)
It's not uncommon in trout raised in hatcheries, from which the one in the photo probably came, which are then used to stock rivers and lakes.
I caught a double-mouthed trout out of a lake in the Lincoln National Forrest in New Mexico some years back.
Really, infrablue? Why is that - do you know?
Did it creep you out, and did you eat that fish?
This fish makes me sad. Poor baby. Good thing he is a fish and doesn't know.
Like in humans, deformities in individual organisms occur throughout the rest of nature at certain rates. When fish are raised in hatcheries, I think it tends to concentrate the numbers of deformed individuals, and it increases the chances of survival of these individuals that would be a lot lower had they been spawned in the wild.
Well, it is kind of startling when you come across deformed animals like that. There was a story in the paper a few years back of a deformed striped bass that was pulled out of Elephant Butte Reservoir. I wish I had scanned that photo, 'cause if a fish could suffer from severe Down's Syndrome, it would look like that striped bass.
Yeah, I ate the trout.
I don't think I would have eaten that striped bass, though.
mmm . . . double-mouthed trout
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