Worms

At least they don't pay taxes.

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I forgot to mention one unique parasite. The Deep-sea Anglerfish male is tiny compared to the female. When he finds a female, he latches onto her side, and the two become joined. Soon the male no longer needs to eat and breathe, because he gets everything from the female's blood supply. His only purpose is to produce sperm when the female lays eggs. A female may sometimes have two or more attached males.

naiad said:

It is an isopod (Cymothoa sp.), a crustacean related to woodlice and water lice. It eats the tongue of the fish, and then lives in the place where the tongue would be. The fish usually lives a normal life with the isopod instead of its tongue. It is not dangerous to humans (unless someone has a tale about diving with their mouth open and ending up being mistaken for a fish!).

Tongue-eating lice hit catfish farm | Practical Fishkeeping magazine
UnderwaterTimes.com :: View topic - Fish Tongue-Eating Parasite Spreading?

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I hadn't heard of these before. Would they have been around Greece a few thousand years ago? Here's why I ask: (From wikipedia)

Re: Anaximander: Teacher of Pythagorus

In De Die Natali (IV, 7), the 3rd
century Roman writer Censorinus reports:
" Anaximander of Miletus considered that from warmed up water and
earth emerged either fish or entirely fishlike animals. Inside these
animals, men took form and embryos were held prisoners until puberty;
only then, after these animals burst open, could men and women come
out, now able to feed themselves.

Anaximander put forward the idea that humans had to spend part of this
transition inside the mouths of big fish to protect themselves from
the Earth's climate until they could come out in open air and lose
their scales.[22] He thought that, considering humans' extended
infancy, we could not have survived in the primeval world in the same
manner we do presently".


Perhaps Anaximander thought that the embryo/larval stage of humans resembled these. Not exactly mainstream science today!

Could be - people used to believe that barnacle geese emerged from goose barnacles.

I did well to avoid seeing this thread, but today I saw it and tried not to read it :head

I think in balance this post needs some input from a meat inspector (which I'm not). Knowing a bit more about the horrible parasites found in Beef, Pork and Chicken may make the fish worms not so hard to stomach ;>)

On topic, I tend to fillet without puncturing the gut and then freeze, prefering to rotate my frozen stock.

Caught a nice 7kg cod on sunday and several of the worms (anasakis) were in the belly meat, just through the gut lining by the time I got it home. Filleting without gutting would negate that problem but the Mrs's old dear likes the belly meat.

Pav, You are right about the chicken and pork... much more of a worry. Not so sure about beef tho... I like it almost raw