Canned salmon, long thought to be just a pantry staple, has unexpectedly become a valuable archive of Alaskan marine ecology.

And that includes keeping an eye on the news. In 2017, salmon caught in Alaska was found to have tapeworms. “Previously, the parasite was confined to fish from Asia, but as recently as January ...

[6] However, people in the U.S. may be more concerned now because the researchers have found the tapeworm in wild pink salmon from the Alaskan Pacific. Kuchta and his team analyzed five species of ...

Infected fish can't be sold due to the lesions the parasites cause. But the health of the fish is also at risk. In extreme cases, an infestation can cause mass mortality. Currently the most common ...

It is likely that the tapeworm was acquired orally. Suspicion fell on cherry-salmon sashimi that the man had consumed three months earlier. The food would have contained a tiny larval form of the ...