Anyone ever seen this before?

[Jaybones]

One of my fish today had some weird colorations on its stomach (on it's plyoric caecae?) appeared to be deep purple/brown. I have never seen this in a salmon before, I showed the creel survey guy and he said he had never seen it either. After throwing it to the seals I realized I should have kept it and sent it in somewhere to get analyzed. Anyone else ever seen this in a salmon before? The fish was healthy and the meat looked fine. For next time where would you send the stomach to be analyzed?

 

[wildmanyeah]

@Dave @Bugs

 

[Che]

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[ryanb]

No picture, but maybe a healed wound? I've caught a few before with purple discolorations that were obviously healed injuries.

 

[Jaybones]

 

[fishbadger]

If there wasn't any discoloration on the belly skin overlying that area to suggest trauma, then I'm gonna hazard a guess that it's a variant of normal gut coloration.

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[Cuba Libre]

Flesh is clean ???? Just eat it. No big deal.