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  • Move over mahi-mahi, here comes maha tuna.
    by mindslight
  • The culprits, in this particular case, are the fishermen.
    by pvaldes
  • Poor fish!
    by thriving_earthw
  • Why is the headline trying to make it sound like it's new or a big deal?

    That's a terrible sensationalist website btw...

    by khalic
  • Is that why it's flagged?
    by memcg
  • Part of the story that says:

    In 2020, researchers at the University of Washington found evidence that Anisakis worms in raw seafood have increased 280 times since the 1970s.

    So that seems new or new-ish.

    by swills
  • First, bonito is not tuna. Second, the reason there is a season for bonito is because of the parasites.
    by comrade1234
  • Bonus protein
    by christkv
  • I wonder how this will affect sushi ? Could people eating that get infected ? Seems in very rare cases the answer is yes.

    I am from an older generation, I have never nor will ever eat sushi :)

    by jmclnx
  • Futurama covered this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasites_Lost
    by pulvinar
  • Sell it as "protein tuna" and you can even markup the prices!
    by jagermo
  • Land based fish farms might be the future for seafood. Actually rooting for Nordic Halibut and Salmon Evolution.
    by perks_12
  • Antibiotics of all sorts, runoff, etc... There's no magic panacea. Thai and Vietnamese shrimp farms have been known to kill of swaths of mangroves. This you can find from a Google search.

    On a more anecdotal basis, I've also heard that Norwegian salmon is fed quite a cocktail of antibiotics etc and some people for that reason prefer New Zealand or Scottish salmon. Again this part I have no evidence.

    So anyway my point is that it's definitely not as easy as it seems unless I misunderstand what "land based" means, I just assume they're fish farms not in the open sea but somewhere in a lake or an artificially made pool.

    by podocarp
  • Any angler will know that, in some lakes, it seems like every fish is full of worms. I've always dealt with that by frying the crap out of them -- no medium-rare bass for me, sorry. Alternatively, I'm sure they're fine after a few weeks in the freezer.

    Rivers seem to be better, with worm presence (or at least, obvious worm presence) being less common. Additionally, I've never seen worms in bottom-feeding fish like catfish and carp.

    by AnodicElegy
  • >Additionally, I've never seen worms in bottom-feeding fish like catfish and carp.

    no just the heavy metals you can see...

    by senectus1
  • It has already been known for a long time fish, and in particular tuna, carry a lot of worms and parasites, which is why freezing rules are in place in pretty much every country.

    For example here are EU regulations regarding freezing Tuna

    https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=PI_...

    by anon48293
  • Prob dumb question but what about sushi? I'm talking about the storied markets in Japan where they go bid on the fish fresh off the boat.

    EDIT: Looks like the next thread down goes into this. It is flash frozen to kill the parasites, usually on the boat.

    by soupfordummies