"briansfly" wrote in message
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Tom Nakashima wrote:
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Lazarus Cooke wrote:

You're unlikely to eat them. You can see them quite easily on a
salmon's skin. I can't think, though, that if you did eat one they
could possibly do you any harm. they're quite normal on wild salmon -
indeed until recently were seen as a good sign, as they drop off fairly
soon after a fish reaches fresh water, and if you saw a few on a fish
you knew it was fresh - in other words had only very recently entered a
river system.

Sea lice are a freaking badge of honor. :-)

Seriously, salmon fishermen look for sea lice on their fish. If they find
them they're very happy.

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Not sure if I would be happy to view sea lice.
A photo of sea lice cluster in wild salmon:
http://www.watershed-watch.org/ww/Photos/lice16.htm
-tom


For a fisherman, fishing one of the spawning rivers, sea lice are seen as
"desirable". The sea lice will fall off after a short time in freshwater.
All it means is that the fish is fresh from the ocean, and the meat/flesh
is still in good shape.

I noticed you said sea lice "in" salmon. Maybe the article was talking
about a different parasite?

brians


I'm pretty sure it was sea lice, but I'll do more research on the subject.
-tom