In the spring of 2021, Natalie Mastick, a graduate student in the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, dissected filets from nearly 200 cans of salmon, some of which were ...

Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum, with decades of Alaskan marine ecology preserved in brine and tin. That's a problem for parasite ...

The worms are about a centimeter (0.4 inches) long and tend to coil up in the fish muscle. They found that pulling the fillets apart with forceps allowed the team to count worm corpses accurately with ...

Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum, with decades of Alaskan marine ecology preserved in brine and tin. That's a problem for parasite ...

Old cans of salmon, some sealed since the 1970s, have become unexpected tools in unraveling long-term changes in marine ecosystems. Initially preserved for quality control by Seattle’s Seafood ...

Parasites are repulsive enough in the wild, but coming across one in your food takes the gross-out factor to a whole other level. Case in point: several eye-bleach-worthy TikToks that recently went ...

Alaskan waters are a critical fishery for salmon. Complex marine food webs underlie and sustain this fishery, and scientists want to know how climate change is reshaping them. But finding samples from ...