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 ...

More than 90% of popular freshwater fish in Southern California are carrying human-infecting parasites, researchers say. This poses a significant danger for those who like to eat freshly caught ...

At the heart of the Amazon, researchers are investigating a mysterious parasite which is devastating fish farms around the world. Parasites called myxozoa infect fish populations with deadly diseases, ...

Using genome reconstruction, scientists unveiled a once 'invisible' fish parasite present in many marine fish world-wide that belongs to the apicomplexans, one of the most important groups of ...

Oregon officials have killed about 160,000 rainbow trout to stop the spread of a pathogen they hadn’t seen before. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife staff discovered the parasite after they ...

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers in northern Colorado are warning of a potential spread of parasites in Colorado lakes if anglers don't take the proper steps to ...

Monogenean parasites represent a significant challenge to aquaculture operations, particularly affecting finfish by infecting the skin and gills. These ectoparasitic flatworms are characterised by ...

Working with raw fish can be tricky from a food safety standpoint. Thankfully, there's an easy way to inspect it before you ...

Parasites that eat fish tongues and take their place in the mouth have been found in a batch of seabream arriving at a port in the U.K. The parasites, Cymothoa exigua, were first spotted in the ...

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 ...