This fish was snagged dead with its eyes missing in the Cedar River, near Vinton, Iowa. If that doesn't strike you as strange... it should. This fish an Emperor Red Snapper -Lutjanus sebae! Emperor Red Snappper are a saltwater fish that live in the Western Pacific Ocean from southern Japan, south to Australia then East to the southern Red Sea and East Africa. Evidentally someone had it in an aquarium and released it after it got to big or tossed it after it died in captivity.