ever seen these i your salmon

[bonez10]

I found these white pearl like balls filled with a milky fluid on the lateral line in the fillets of a spring I got today anyone ever seen this before ?

 

[triplenickel]

Seen em before but no idea what they are.

 

[casper5280]

I believe they are cyst's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_and_parasites_in_salmon

 

[tubber]

Saw one pea size ball the other day. Sometimes there are dozens. Gross.
Shuswap posted this in the Protein thread:
"I understand that for some folks consuming farm salmon is just totally unacceptable because they feel it's unhealthy, but when a website like the one posted at the beginning starts criticizing farm salmon because of tapeworms (as if wild salmon have none) I just have to laugh. Here is a common parasite found in wild Pacific salmon that many salmon anglers may have seen. "

https://fishpathogens.net/pathogen/henneguya-salminicola

 

[PatyO'Furniture]

I had a couple fish a few years ago with filled with those white spots. I researched it and posted on here. Some people said its fine to eat but I saved it all for crab bait instead. I wasnt going to eat the stuff.

 

[Fishwhistler]

gross i have seen it lots in coho i would not eat it!!

 

[Goathorns]

send it off to the Nanaimo bio station or describe it to them. I had a Chum that had white spheres in the flesh and they said it was a common thing, a parasite or something. was a few years ago now.

 

[SteelyDan]

Nasty! Freeze those fillets for 40 days to be safe

 

[trophywife]

fat balls.

 

[Birdsnest]

If your eating halibut and salmon your are eating all kinds of stuff like that. Only difference is this salmonicola is visible whereas most of the items on this list of undesirables are not.

 

[Lipripper]

Tapioca disease

 

[tubber]

Tapioca disease

Nice to see you posting again.

 

[Lipripper]

I never left

I check the board every morning. I just had an answer for the white balls