This was a LONG time ago when we had a thread going about various parasites in salmon meat... particularly the common Tapioca Disease.

The garden variety stuff is caused by Henneguya salmonicola which is basically just the egg shaped pus-pockets embedded in the meat. The meat itself is unharmed.

A more serious form is caused by Kudoa thyrsites which looks the same but produces a proteolytic enzyme that basically pre-digests the surrounding meat. It is heat stable so cooking/smoking does not stop the process of enzymatic breakdown of the flesh.

The pic I'm looking for was of two just-finished fillets of smoked salmon on a tilted rack with liquefied muscle tissue running off the fillets like tomato soup.

If you were the guy who originally posted it, shoot me a PM... or just feel free to post that gross-a$$ pic here now.

Thanks