jhonyl
05-21-2003
05:38 PM | I found in my fish (tilapia) a few white things, about as thick as a hair, maybe a bit thicker, it is white and I pulled them of the fish. It is about 1 inch or 1/2 inch.
Then after little time outside the fish, it drys, and becomes hard.
I found it paralel to the fish spine but near the skin (side) , and also near the skelton (side) going from bottom to top inside the fat. ( They all were on the surface of the filet, maybe 0.1 inch inside it )
What is it? |
RRM
05-22-2003
12:49 PM | It can be connective tissue, or a parasite. Ask the retailer.
I doubt that tilapia can safely be consumed raw!!!
quote:
From this page:
http://biology.usgs.gov/pr/newsrelease/1997/9-10.html
Investigators seeking causes of recurrent massive die-offs of fish and water birds at California's Salton Sea may have identified a principal culprit, according to Dr. Milton Friend, director of the National Wildlife Health Center.
The finding comes as a new die-off of tilapia, the predominant fish species in the Salton Sea, has been reported with more than one million dead fish over a three-mile stretch at the north end of the Sea, Department of the Interior officials said.
Drs. Tonie Rocke and Lynn Creekmore, scientists from the US Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center (Madison, Wis.), conducted a field investigation in late August that focused on collecting sick or freshly dead fish from locations where most of the bird mortality was occurring. In collaboration with NWHC studies, Dr. Jan Landsberg, a research scientist in aquatic health at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, examined gills from 23 fish collected at the Salton Sea for parasites. She found 22 to be infested with moderate to high levels of a lethal parasite of warm-water marine fish.
Why don't you eat salmon or tuna? |
