'This is just crazy': Alaskan fisherman caught blue-fleshed fish

An Alaskan fisherman showed off his colorful catch with orange spots and natural blue meat, and also explained what the fish looks like when cooked. The publication told in more detail Fox News.

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Joe Chmelek, owner of The Lodge at Otter Cove in Homer, Alaska, caught a rock greenling on his fishing rod late last month, according to his Facebook and Instagram posts.

“Today I went fishing and caught a greenling,” Chmelek wrote on August 28. - The flesh is blue. It turns white when cooked. Mother Nature is incredible.”

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In a subsequent video that Chmelek posted on Facebook, he showed how blue fish fillets with the skin completely removed change color when fried in oil.

Many commentators under his posts on social networks wrote that they did not know about the existence of this type of fish.

“What an incredibly beautiful fish!” — wrote one Facebook user.

“It's just crazy. I’ve never seen anything like this,” another commented on Instagram.

"It's amazing!!! I didn’t even know such a fish existed,” another Facebook follower admired.

Chmelek said the fish he caught tasted like trout.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game cannot issue a consumption advisory for greenlings because it has not been able to collect enough samples to determine mercury levels in the species.

Greenlings, also known as Hexagrammos lagocephalus, are ray-finned marine fish commonly found along the northern Pacific coast, from Point Conception State Marine Sanctuary in California to the Bering Sea in Alaska.

According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, greenlings have dark scales with a "variegated" pattern that can range from brown, red, orange to green, allowing them to blend in with their rocky environment.

The fish have blue or blue-green mouths and flesh, although the fish appear to have evolved for camouflage, both wildlife agencies explained.

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Scientists don't know exactly why these fish have blue-green pigments in their tissues, but they do know that the color occurs because the fish biologically produce biliverdin, a green bile, says Oregon Sea Grant.

According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, greenlings feed on marine worms, crustaceans and small fish.

The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife noted that the fish typically grows to 24 inches (60 cm) in length and weighs up to 1,83 pounds (830 g).

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