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.

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 ...

Parasites are repulsive enough in the wild, but coming across one in your food takes the gross-out factor to a whole other level. Case in point: several eye-bleach-worthy TikToks that recently went ...

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 ...

If you’re considering making sushi at home, this food scientist is begging you to take this information into account to avoid getting sick. Some people see sushi and think that it’s an easy enough ...