Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
I know what you mean. I spent quite a bit of time along the Louisiana coast. it was mostly shrimping in the area where I was though.
The best part is all the nematode worms in the meat. Every piece of cod is just loaded with them. Each fish will have half a dozen of the things you have to pick out of the meat. Most in-shore fish are actually.

The lifecycle of the worms is super interesting. The rely on their host being eaten. What happens is when the host organism is eaten, the worm releases little vile baby worms, which then bore through your intestinal wall. Then they float around in your blood stream until they get lodged in a capillary. Could be in muscle, lungs, brain, doesn't matter. Once there, they start to grow. Your body will form a cyst around the worm, then that's it. You have this little dime sized sphere in your body somewhere with a worm in it. Now that worm will wait until you are eaten by some predator to start the whole process again. Super gross, super dangerous.

It was years before I could eat fish again.