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Wow. I'm surprised that thing made it to adulthood. Albinos in the wild usually get eaten......early! Even many albino predators can not survive, as they rely on camouflage to hunt, in many cases. Definitely cool. Here in CT our state record channel cat was an albino.
Did it have red eyes? From the other picture of it it looks like a black eye. Albinos usually have red or pink eyes. You think it might just be a skin pigment anomaly like a color phase bear or even a white moose or deer? Did the G&F see the fish and say it was an albino?
I am with WYOBEAR on this one; if it did not have red or pink eyes it was not a true albino. Interesting fish, no doubt!ClearCreek
Yeah I'm not sure of the degree of albinism, I may be wrong but the fish biologist was the one who said it was albino after seeing the pic, he wound up giving it to a taxidermist who was going to enter it in some taxidermy exhibit or something.
Leucism: Condition in which all types of skin pigment are reduced due to defects in pigment cell differentiation with the normal result a partially (often referred to as 'pied' or 'piebald'), or more rarely, completely white animal. Differs from albinism, which is caused by a lack of melanin only, in several ways, with one of the most apparent being that albino animals typically have red eyes whereas leucism does not normally affect eye colour. Pronounced, and sometimes spelled, leukism.
Fished with a buddy who caught this albino ling. I believe he said the game and fish said that this is pretty rare...Maybe 1 in 200,000 to 250,000 ling? Pretty cool!
I have caught a bunch of ling in my day and can't say i have ever caught a white common (molva) ling. That is a beautiful fish. Thanks for sharing.