Rainbow trout meat color

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The color of trout meat is a result of their diet both of your fish are hatchery fish and spent most of their lives eating pellets. The large fish is most likely a brood stock fish that spent its life in the hatchery and reached the end of it productivity. The fish and game stock these large old fish in community ponds to give kids a chance to catch trophy fish. Wild fish and hatchery hold over fish that have diets high in carnitine in the wild will have darker flesh ranging from pink to dark red.
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