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it's not common but there have been cases of fisherman coming down with cases of necrotizing fascitis (flesh eating disease) from fish infected with photobacterium damsela. it only happens in rear cases when the fisherman have some sort of immuno-deficient condition such as late stage diabetes II where the fisherman was not expected to live very long.
if a fisherman was to come in contact with a sickly looking fish and has a cut on their hand and the disease got into the cut, 99% of the time, their immune system will have no problem warding off the invader.
the best way to avoid disease is to simply was your hands after you have touched the fish in question and was your hands with some sort of antibacterial soap when you get home.
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