Salmon intestinal cysts

[Greg enns]

i was wondering if anyone can help identify what I found inside a spring salmon caught in Campbell River today. The fish looked fat and when we opened the fish up we found fleshy, round cyst like perhaps fatty looking balls. I had sliced the salmon open in a cooler and then put the contents of the fish in the cooler. I have attached a picture. I asked a DFO officer and without seeing the fish he thought it might be fat. Any thoughts?

 

[chromatose007]

Fukashima?

 

[Greg enns]

I was thinking that. I have contacted some salmon advisory boards and a sample for DNA test.

 

[Che]

Henneguya

Who knows where or why the fish got it, but it's not so uncommon.

Don't eat the fish. (which should be an obvious thing not to do)

 

[Dave]

Henneguya

Who knows where or why the fish got it, but it's not so uncommon.

Don't eat the fish. (which should be an obvious thing not to do)

Interesting. I have never seen Henneguya encasing the pyloric caeca before, only in the flesh.

 

[Che]

I've only seen henneguya in a hatchery egg take setting, and yes, it was in the flesh. I'm no fish biologist, but that looks just like 'fish tapioca' to me!

 

[Birdbrain]

It is not Henneguya, and if it was, there is no danger in eating the fish.
Henneguya is much smaller (max.1 cm. dia.), and is only located within the muscle.
https://fishpathogens.net/pathogen/henneguya-salminicola

Looks like fat globules to me.
Although, I've seen similar, but smaller, cysts attached to a coho stomach, and they turned out to be tapeworm cysts (Diphyllobothrium spp.).
https://fishpathogens.net/pathogen/diphyllobothrium
Freezing or cooking supposedly kills that parasite, but I didn't want to chance having a 30 ft. worm inside me, so I tossed the fish.