89 worms in shad!!!!!

[sinker]

Check this article out. Glad I haven't eaten any shad.
Found this on the Seattle PI's website.
Wormy Shad (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/98943_shad07.shtml)

[skein]

I can't wait to read the Oregonian's regurgitation of this "study." You have to stay with it to the very last line to get to the reality of the thing:

Disease is pretty rare if you handle the food properly," Thomas said. "It's not a big health risk."<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">Pigs are the carriers of trichnosis, little parasitic worms that can kill you, but when did any of us last hear of a neighbor dying of it? I especially liked the "tickle in the back of your throat" phrase. Tabloid reporting at its best.

But then I feed my shad to the crabs and sturgeon....

Skein

[sinker]

Enough heat will kill just about anything. :grin:

Wife is always complaining when I cook cause I make sure it's good and done. Nothing like BBQ'd burgers that are crispy on the outside. :grin: :grin:

Don't think I'd have to worry about it. Although alot of people barely cook there fish at all. Went to a fancy restaurant one time and it was the first salmon I'd seen that you had to CUT with your fork to eat it.

[Cutter]

I thought these lines were kind of funny.

The parasite, known scientifically as Anisakis simplex, is also found in salmon, halibut and rockfish. But shad are migrating up Northwest rivers and streams, posing a risk to inland mammals that eat the fish.

Now I pretty sure the last time I was at a Northwest river I saw salmon migrating up the river. Now I did not do a study on this so I can not scientifically prove this as fact. I think I will need a goverment grant to study whether or not salmon actually do or do not migrate up northwest rivers. If they do migrate, what are the effects on the raccoons and bears who have been eating the salmon. I'll need another grant for that. :wink:

[skein]

Yeah Cutter, let's put in for a couple of grants. To do a good study, we'd need to sample fish from *all* the northcoast rivers, preferably on a year-round, daily basis. We will need to keep a native or two just to compare parasites in hatchery vs wild fish. We'd need to fillet them out and watch for and document any worm activity. Then we'd need year-round halibut tags for the same reason. We'd need new BBQ's so we could test the effects of cooking, along with a group of participants to sample the feast ...er...test fish. I figure we'll need four boats; two drifters, a sled, and an offshore rig, as well as tackle ...er...sampling gear, etc, etc. I'm thinking we could do this for a million-two.

Let's get started! :grin:

Skein

[Tilla]

I believe these worms are visible. I've seen them in restaurant served Halibut. Little curled up things. Ack! :sick:

[fisheromen]

I've found parasites coiled up in rockfish from the jetty - its enough to make you chuck the fish instead of digging them out. Nasty! And I love the taste of those fish too.