Steps wrote: Having moved from east to west coast, it seems far more common on the west. A little different on the east position more random and in smaller fish as well.. Have put it down to maybe a bone break or damage maybe from escaping a net /crushed or escaped a bigger preditor when young |
FishMan wrote: Yeah, no expert here, but it just gets labelled as Hyperostosis and has an unknown cause. I get asked about it a lot so it's pretty common and nobody has died yet from eating a snapper that has them. I see them with free floating lumps in their flesh as well that are not connected to any bones. Maybe an immune response of some sort. Let's just say that the great majority of snapper look pretty darned good. I'd hate to think what we'd see if we regularly examined the guts and flesh of most of the human population |
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