Parasites in fish

[Eddies]

Found these in a yellow fin tuna I caught. I googled and itsaid roundworms or something. Dunno but it doesn't look too appetizing118635118636

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[Noelm]

Caught hundreds of Yellowfin and never seen any worms or other stuff in them, Leatherjackets however, yeeew, never eat them ever, I have seen worm looking things in Bream, supposedly harmless and OK to eat.

[Eddies]

Found these in a yellow fin tuna I caught. I googled and itsaid roundworms or something. Dunno but it doesn't look too appetizing118635118636

Sent from my [device_name] using Ausfish mobile appYeah right. I've never seen it before either mate. Didn't look to appetizing though.

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[Noelm]

It almost looks like fat or something.

[Watto79]

Looks terrible, nothing like what I am used too when filleting a yellowfin either...

Crab bait..

[jackson4300]

Looks riddled with whatever it is, thats a shame on such a nice fish.

[Lovey80]

Wow never seen that in Yellowfin. Where was it caught?

[Eddies]

Wow never seen that in Yellowfin. Where was it caught?Down off Brunswick at windarra bank. I've never seen anything like it hey. Wild.

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[Eddies]

Looks riddled with whatever it is, thats a shame on such a nice fish.Yeah I know shit house hey. Looked healthy and fat. But cut him open and faaaark

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[Eddies]

It almost looks like fat or something.Na mate it was heaps of little balls all throughout the fish hey. The bigger one just looked normal nice flesh ya know. Weird. Have googled it and nothing looked like this

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[Eddies]

It almost looks like fat or something.Na mate didn't look like fat hey. Heaps of little balls. Weird

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[efc]

Damn that’s a shame, never seen a yellow fin with flesh like that.
A few Jew I have caught out from the tweed have worms but even then the flesh doesn’t look like that.
How did you find the Brunswick bar?

[Eddies]

Damn that’s a shame, never seen a yellow fin with flesh like that.
A few Jew I have caught out from the tweed have worms but even then the flesh doesn’t look like that.
How did you find the Brunswick bar?Not to bad mate, bit scetchy on the way in nearly low tide and heaps short period swell. Wouldn't like to hit it any bigger than 3ft swell though. Pretty shallow.

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[Ben D]

That looks like a Kudoa infection - what you are seeing is large numbers of small "pseudocysts" throughout the flesh represent plasmodia, each containing many thousands of tiny parasite spores. This sort of infection is typical of certain species of Kudoa parasites, a group of small protozoa like fish parasites which are actually parasitic cnidarians (i.e. related to jellyfish). I certainly would not recommend eating fillets that look like this as some Kudoa spp. when cooked exude enzymes that liquefy the flesh, making it tasty and boitter/tasteless, while other species can be toxic and cause illness.

[catshark]

just reading post 14 is giving me the creeps, well done on the knowlege and thanks for posting. cheers

[tug_tellum]

That looks like a Kudoa infection - what you are seeing is large numbers of small "pseudocysts" throughout the flesh represent plasmodia, each containing many thousands of tiny parasite spores. This sort of infection is typical of certain species of Kudoa parasites, a group of small protozoa like fish parasites which are actually parasitic cnidarians (i.e. related to jellyfish). I certainly would not recommend eating fillets that look like this as some Kudoa spp. when cooked exude enzymes that liquefy the flesh, making it tasty and boitter/tasteless, while other species can be toxic and cause illness.
YEAH! What he said
Mick

[SUPERDAFF]

That looks like a Kudoa infection - what you are seeing is large numbers of small "pseudocysts" throughout the flesh represent plasmodia, each containing many thousands of tiny parasite spores. This sort of infection is typical of certain species of Kudoa parasites, a group of small protozoa like fish parasites which are actually parasitic cnidarians (i.e. related to jellyfish). I certainly would not recommend eating fillets that look like this as some Kudoa spp. when cooked exude enzymes that liquefy the flesh, making it tasty and boitter/tasteless, while other species can be toxic and cause illness.

Gee Ben - you caught my attention with that explanation... guess I can discount the "Wagu Tuna" theory … Thank you sire.

[Ah Me Ting]

That looks like a Kudoa infection - what you are seeing is large numbers of small "pseudocysts" throughout the flesh represent plasmodia, each containing many thousands of tiny parasite spores. This sort of infection is typical of certain species of Kudoa parasites, a group of small protozoa like fish parasites which are actually parasitic cnidarians (i.e. related to jellyfish). I certainly would not recommend eating fillets that look like this as some Kudoa spp. when cooked exude enzymes that liquefy the flesh, making it tasty and boitter/tasteless, while other species can be toxic and cause illness.

Awesome knowledge there mate. How'd you come by that knowledge? You work in the industry or scientific type role?

[Eddies]

That looks like a Kudoa infection - what you are seeing is large numbers of small "pseudocysts" throughout the flesh represent plasmodia, each containing many thousands of tiny parasite spores. This sort of infection is typical of certain species of Kudoa parasites, a group of small protozoa like fish parasites which are actually parasitic cnidarians (i.e. related to jellyfish). I certainly would not recommend eating fillets that look like this as some Kudoa spp. when cooked exude enzymes that liquefy the flesh, making it tasty and boitter/tasteless, while other species can be toxic and cause illness.Jeeeesus thanks Ben . The best explaination I've seen yet. Appreciate it. Are you a marine biologist .

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