HillbillyGeek
10/14/2013 7:03:00 PMVery strange looking meat indeed! I wonder if there's a biologist out there who'd want a sample or if it's something that's well-known.
Fish cancer?
Fish pox?
Fish cancer?
Fish pox?
fishee2
10/14/2013 7:25:00 PMI got this information from Wikipedia. they have picture similar to yours. hmmm. GROSSS!
Henneguya salminicola, a protozoan parasite commonly found in the flesh of salmonids on the West Coast of Canada. Coho salmon
Henneguya salminicola, a protozoan parasite commonly found in the flesh of salmonids on the West Coast of Canada. Coho salmon
Smalma
10/14/2013 7:25:00 PMThose puss pockets are caused by a parasite that goes by the name of Henneguya salmonicola or sometimes called tapioca disease.
The parasite is a two host parasite with the salmon being the secondary host that becomes infested while in freshwater. The salmon carries the parasite the rest of its life releasing the spores after death which infect the invertebrates in the freshwater. While salmonicola can be found in any of the salmon species it is most common in those that spend the longest time as juveniles in freshwater (more exposure to the secondary stage of the parasite) thus more common in coho than other species..
Like many such parasites it lives in cold blooded critters and will not survival in a warm blood animal (including man) though hardly a critter that one would want in a quality diner.
Curt
The parasite is a two host parasite with the salmon being the secondary host that becomes infested while in freshwater. The salmon carries the parasite the rest of its life releasing the spores after death which infect the invertebrates in the freshwater. While salmonicola can be found in any of the salmon species it is most common in those that spend the longest time as juveniles in freshwater (more exposure to the secondary stage of the parasite) thus more common in coho than other species..
Like many such parasites it lives in cold blooded critters and will not survival in a warm blood animal (including man) though hardly a critter that one would want in a quality diner.
Curt
schu7498
10/14/2013 8:48:00 PMGood info curt! Those parasites are also very common in the satsop fish! You will even catch fish that is so infested that it will be covered in bumps. Super gross. Glad you guys got into some fish!
Mike Carey
10/14/2013 9:21:00 PMthanks for the info. Sad about the meat, but oh well, still a great day.
Smalma
10/15/2013 5:45:00 AMThose scale bumps (sometimes referred to as salmon pox) is caused by a different critter (in this case Myxobulus squamalis). Like "tapioca diesases salmon pox is another "disease" picked up when the salmon is a juvenile in freshwater. Again it is most commonly seen in coho. IN this case the parasite takes residence in the skin pocket that surrounds each scale which ultimately causes those bumps.
It is not uncommon to find fish with both tapioca and salmon pox disease and the life cycle of the two parasites are similar though it is not the norm a fish with both. Again neither disease is fatal to the salmon and as warm blooded animals not a health concern to us.
Curt
It is not uncommon to find fish with both tapioca and salmon pox disease and the life cycle of the two parasites are similar though it is not the norm a fish with both. Again neither disease is fatal to the salmon and as warm blooded animals not a health concern to us.
Curt
natetreat
10/15/2013 7:37:00 PMNASTY. Too bad about the meat. That take down was EPIC. Seriously, that photo made me nauseous.
Mike Carey
10/15/2013 8:22:00 PMya, it was sad to see. First time ever in my experience. I have to go track down some of those plugs Nate!
Mike Carey
10/22/2013 8:23:00 AMthis was a buck so couldn't say. I only found the parasites in the meat.