Growing up, Chelsea Wood dreamed of becoming a marine biologist and studying sharks or dolphins—the kinds of big, exciting animals that biologists call charismatic megafauna. Instead, during a college ...

Regularly we get questions about fish parasites. Last year a new parasite was discovered in the northeastern portion of Wisconsin in 10 lakes. Heterosporis, a microsposporidan parasite. The DNR is not ...

The crew at South Santiam Hatchery is currently treating the 300,000 spring Chinook fingerlings for two different diseases. The first disease is furunculosis (Aeromonas salmonicida). This is a ...

Nearly every single freshwater fish in Southern California may be riddled with parasites that could cause serious health issues in humans. However, the scientists who found the parasites said the ...

Angling, a type of fishing, is a popular pastime across the world, and is known to be 40,000 years old. Angling usually takes place in natural bodies of water, which may have populations of wild fish, ...

LOS ANGELES - Not to open a can of worms, but actually, there could be worms in your wild-caught fish. Tiny worms can make it all the way from the ocean to a dinner plate. One food blogger found three ...

Researchers have detailed an outbreak that sickened dozens of people in Italy in 2022 caused by a parasite after people ate fish in a restaurant. Opisthorchis felineus is a trematode causing a ...

A post shared online by Galveston Island State Park has taught some Texans about the existence of a common parasite that terrifyingly replaces the tongues of fish. The parasite, which the park ...

In the course of studying wrasse skulls, an evolutionary biologist found a parasite hiding inside a fish’s mouth. And not only had the louse eaten the fish’s tongue – it effectively replaced it. The ...