Allison Little, a middle school assistant principal from Anchorage, has been fishing on the Kasilof River her entire adult life, so she’s used to seeing wormy parasites coiled up in fish on occasion.

Canned salmon, long thought to be just a pantry staple, has unexpectedly become a valuable archive of Alaskan marine ecology. A recent study examined expired cans of salmon dating back to the 1970s, ...

Researchers have shown that levels of anisakid worms -- a common marine parasite -- rose in two salmon species in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay over a 42-year period. The team discovered this by ...

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 ...

Researchers now say that could mean salmon caught anywhere off North America's Pacific coasts could be affected, though the health effects aren't generally serious. The scientists, however, warn the ...

I had heard of the Costco Salmon Wormgate in 2023. I had seen the TikToks, read the horror stories, and smugly thought, Wow, that sucks for them. Worms in salmon? That was something that happened to ...

No one wants to see what might be a worm pop out of their fancy filet. A shopper shared a video discovering what seems to be a small worm in her Alaskan Sockeye Salmon filet. The woman says she got it ...