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    Posted: 21 Jun 2012 at 7:25pm
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Hey all, I have caught a few mackerel lately but they seem to have large lice (i think) in their mouths.
 
Is this common?
 
Can it still be eaten? I hear they are good smoked???? (The mackerel, not the lice)
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Yep very common.
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 off hand travs can have them as well ( i think ) ?
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Well im glad its not just me then!! One even had two different types come out of him!
 
I was put off eating them but still good to eat?
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dont eat them send them to me ..yum
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yeah I wondered that too - the macs at the mussel farms in coro seem to all have a big crawly inside, big albino white lookin' things. Creepy
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Big warning..throw the macks away or put in bait freezer and then stir fry the lice in wokLOL
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Yeah I don't think I have ever caught one WITHOUT a lice in its gob. Doesn't hurt the fish as far as I know.
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yep very common is jack macs, piper, trevs, sometimes Kahawai. Harmless and doesnt affect eating quality at all.
 
if your interested to know they are just a parasitic isopod (related to sand hoppers) that grow inside the mouth. They eventually eat away the tounge of the host and replace the tounge with themselves, this way they get a portion of the hosts food without doing anything, pretty clever little things. 
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Originally posted by Catchelot Catchelot wrote:

Big warning..throw the macks away or put in bait freezer and then stir fry the lice in wokLOL
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Lol. fly lice.LOL
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Thats fried lice. PlickWink
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Originally posted by 1Daz 1Daz wrote:

Lol. fly lice.LOL

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Symbiotic relationship
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Yes Oli as Jake D says very common in the mouths of piper jack macks & trevs yet on kahawai they live under the pectoral fins, yet most other fish dont seem to have them and I've no idea why. The fish will be fine, every jack mack seems to have on it its mouth.
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I could be wrong but always thought that a symbiotic relationship was two way - ie benefits for both parties?
 
This nasty ******* doesn't seem to offer much in return to his host?
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realise we can't eat money.
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put the lice on a hook and you will catch another jack mac, sometimes even a snapper....

Thanks for everything you did for us Eric. may you rest in peace, You were one of the real legends of NZ recreational fishing
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Had a mate who caught an fresh extra large kahawai and was hamming it up for some hotties on the beach, holding the kahawai up above his head and pretending to kiss it, a HUGE lice fell out of the fish's mouth into his own ... well you should have seen his reaction,i was laughing for about 5 minutes and so were the women.
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