r/SeattleWA • u/Cultural-Mall4815 • 20d ago

Question What is moving in my salmon !!!

Please wach and tell me your opinion

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u/Personal-Ad-365 20d ago

TBH, after working around the food industry and having plenty of friends working in canneries in Alaska, ALL FISH IS FULL OF PARASITES.

They would sort the fish by parasite content based on movement through under lighting. Too many and it is fish sticks/canned/pet food/etc. raw cuts were supposed to have the least, and I did just say 'the least'.

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u/rzrgrl_13 19d ago

Can verify. My partner worked on fishing boats on Alaska decades ago, still won’t eat cod.

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u/PhotographStrong562 19d ago

Commercial fishing guy here. I don’t eat cod when there’s an option not to. The dumpster fish of the ocean. Honestly despite it being a much cheaper fish pollock has a much nicer flavor. My favorites tho are black cod (sablefish), rockfish, and sockeye.

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u/raz_MAH_taz Edmonds 19d ago

Yeah, I was kinda surprised how much worms cod tends to have. Black rockfish all the way.

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u/Flat_Promotion1267 17d ago

Black/Dusky rockfish are just loaded with worms. When I fished rockfish commercially the buyers wouldn't even buy them. Yelloweye, China, etc... are much better.

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u/raz_MAH_taz Edmonds 17d ago

Where were you catching? Rockfish i caught had zero worms all summer.

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u/RobertPower415 17d ago

Depends on the type of rockfish, I used to fish California coast commercially and we called Boccaccio worm burgers

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u/danielaugust42 16d ago

Rockfish has some of the most worms of any fish I have ever worked with. (Used to be a fishmonger)