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04-07-2013, 09:31 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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I am surprised that the public is largely unaware of these worms. I think if they were demand would shrink and then maybe some of the comm fishing pressure for them would lessen. This would be a good thing.
Maybe we should post large photos of wormed fish outside the fish markets and grocery stores. That would be a novel form of protesting.
Several fisherman I know have stopped fishing for them and don't eat them because of the worms.
Then again...I remember eating an ear of corn when I was kid and it had a couple worms. I told my mother...her response was Ooooh, you have a good one! , A good one I said? Well if you were a worm would you eat a bad ear of corn?...just eat around the worms
I wonder what is causing them target cod and not flounders and other bottom fish? Could it be location?
Last edited by Mr. Sandman; 04-07-2013 at 09:41 AM..
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04-07-2013, 09:44 AM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
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I've always thought that many species have worms. It's natural as far as I know. Squeeze lemon over a previously frozen swordfish steak and they will rise out of the meat. Part of the prep for me. (Freaks out my other half though...) Can't say if this is something that is "new" or on the increase though. But it is why I don't eat sushi, and I am often asked why. Sushi for me is for when I am in a liferaft and out of necessity.
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04-07-2013, 10:47 AM
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Didn't vote for Obozo
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Southern NH
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I put the fillets in the fridge for the night and the worms seem to come out or to the top of the meat. Just pick them out and all is good.
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04-07-2013, 11:28 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Gloucester Massachusetts
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Buy a freezer that will freeze to 7 degrees below zero..will kill the worms....that is what real shusi food places do with their raw fish.
Most of the worms come from codfish eating seal feces off the bottom...the futher away from the seal population the less worms.
Buy pork chops from your local grocery...pour some coke on it...see the parasites or use paper towel with coke and rub on your cheek or forehead and U may see parasites
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04-07-2013, 02:51 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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The worms are where all the "goodness" is!!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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04-07-2013, 09:03 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 4 hours from my favorite place
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fly Rod
Buy pork chops from your local grocery...pour some coke on it...see the parasites or use paper towel with coke and rub on your cheek or forehead and U may see parasites
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Ok I did my time working in a fish market and have seen my share of the cod worms and I can handle worms on my corn but this just made me  a little..... |
Simplify.......
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04-08-2013, 07:43 AM
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Not Jack
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Other Cape
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Yep... they're actually not cod worms per se, they're really seal parasites. Cod are just a vector so they can end up back in the seal, the final host.
Yet another thing we can blame the massive seal population on  |
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04-08-2013, 11:15 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JackK
Yep... they're actually not cod worms per se, they're really seal parasites. Cod are just a vector so they can end up back in the seal, the final host.
Yet another thing we can blame the massive seal population on |
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04-08-2013, 12:16 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fly Rod
Buy a freezer that will freeze to 7 degrees below zero..will kill the worms....that is what real shusi food places do with their raw fish.
Most of the worms come from codfish eating seal feces off the bottom...the futher away from the seal population the less worms.
Buy pork chops from your local grocery...pour some coke on it...see the parasites or use paper towel with coke and rub on your cheek or forehead and U may see parasites
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Sounds like a nice TFCTFN contest, who has the most parasites coming out of their forehead! |
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04-08-2013, 12:43 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,441
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Quote:
Originally Posted by striperman36
Sounds like a nice TFCTFN contest, who has the most parasites coming out of their forehead!
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That's hysterical right there... |
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04-07-2013, 03:35 PM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nightfighter
I've always thought that many species have worms. It's natural as far as I know. Squeeze lemon over a previously frozen swordfish steak and they will rise out of the meat. Part of the prep for me. (Freaks out my other half though...) Can't say if this is something that is "new" or on the increase though. But it is why I don't eat sushi, and I am often asked why. Sushi for me is for when I am in a liferaft and out of necessity.
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Worked in fish market through and post hi school,,, 60's and remember them big old worms running through the swords back then,,,
Worms, no worms, I love sword!
Went looking for them once south of NT,,, but that's another story  |
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