OK everyone, time for fish parasites 101!

Most salmonids carry worms. If one knows where to look....they may be found fairly consistently. I offer the following not to gross you out but to merely inform.

Let's take a salmon or steelhead fillet. Just under the skin you have a thin, grayish-tan layer of meat that is known biologically as "red meat". Then, you have the actual red flesh we all love which is actually known as "white meat". If one takes their fork and flakes apart a cooked fillet you will notice long, white, stringy worms between the 2 meat layers. It's common, most of us don't know it when we eat it and....as stated earlier, it's just protein. Good eating!