To add further to this list: I have observed both a swordfish and a blue marlin with packing straps embedded behind the head, where the flesh had grown around them as has been described for these other fish. The straps were exactly the type used on boxes of squid and mackeral that is commonly used for longline bait. This was in the subtropical Atlantic.
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