Published Nov 11, 2026 8:22 AM EST We’ll call him mellow yellow. An “exceptionally rare” yellow-colored burbot (Lota lota) was recently caught by a team of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) biologists in Oswego Harbor on Lake Ontario in Upstate New York. Burbots are long fish that weigh about three to five pounds on average, and live in cold rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia.