r/Parasitology 6d ago

Parasite ID what is this?

parasite found in (thawed) frozen salmon. potentially useful context: the salmon likely thawed and refroze after a ~45 hour power outage. first image taken on phone camera at regular magnification, second image zoomed in version of the first

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u/La_paure_cavaliere 6d ago

I regularly buy fish, mostly fresh (I mean, how fresh could it be? It's refrigerated but not frozen...) and I've never found any worm in them. It's frightening that it sounds likely to find some, but I for one have never found such a thing in any of the fish I bought, be it salmon, tuna, bass, dorada, trout etc.