Milky Trev's

[Outnumbered]

with the trev's we caught today (steve will post the report later ) we noticed that when we were cleaning them the flesh was extremely white and milky looking ,some lots more than others.

has anyone else noticed this lately? and does anyone know why this happens??

[big_steve]

[Ken A]

High water temps can cause problems like that.

[Outnumbered]

is it a problem? does it affect the eating quality?

[Ken A]

Last fish I cooked that was milky turned into mush.

[domza]

ill look out for it tomorow when i hopefully catch a few in the bay...last time i tried to pan fry a big slimy mackeral it fell into pieces aswell, but i think thats just the texture of the oily mackeral

[Livie]

Any wierd stuff like that, I leave them alone, Theres waaaay too much crazy bugs out there that I know nothing about.

Maybe they just sporned and are at there lowest condition.

The winter trevs have always been fat and clear.

[Alex]

Hi mate,

There is a type of parasite called kudoa thyrsites that can do this. It gets into the flesh but stays inactive untill the fish and flesh start to die. You don't knotice it when the fish is fresh, but when it dies this comes on pretty quick. I'm not sure if this is the case here cause i havn't heard of it with Trev's but for some reason i don't know, they say don't cold smoke then freeze the fish if you think it has it.

[Guest maraudingmado]

I remember reading the kingies up the North Coast had the same condition and didn't fight as good as the ones down the south coast