Cod worms

[rexhamer]

I realize this is not a striper question, but who better to ask than avid fishermen.

I got a couple of keeper cod inshore off Gurnet Point in Duxbury this weekend. Upon filleting them I found they had worms/parasites in them. I have heard differing opinions on the edibility(?) of the fillets from these fish.

Is the meat bad, or as I have been told by one old salt - they are cavity parasites and do not enter the flesh, just wash them off and you are OK.

Any advice - I've got some nice fillets to cook or toss.

[striprman]

Just cut out the worms and cook them up.

[Christian]

they are fine.
youve probly eaten thousands of them.
pick em out if you see em if you wanna. its being cooked anyways, so no worrys.
most restaurants dont check for em and youve probly eaten alot more than you want to know about.
hold em up to the sunlight and youll see them and can pick em out. otherwise, eat em, they wont hurt ya.

[Raider Ronnie]

Nothing wrong with them just paracites!
like already posted, cut them off and cook them up!

Took my brother out coddin last summer and because he had to get back home early , we were back at my dock by 11:00 am, so I fillet up about 20 lbs of fillets for him to take home , and headed back out with my son and got some more.
He calls me that night with the same question and I told him to cut them off, and he then tells me he allready tossed them out for the trash
Pissed me off big time!!! took he out and gave him all that fish and didn't take a dime for gas and I fed him while we were out fishing!
Haven't called him to go out since!!!
Ron