On Sunday my wife, our son and I enjoyed a very pleasant days fishing at Waikawau mussel farms. We brought home our entitlement of 32cm to 42 cm fish and when I had filleted them I noticed that two of the fish were in skinny condition with milky white coloured flesh. The fillets of one of the fish was also quite mushy. I have noticed this before but never really thought too much about it. Does anyone know why the fish were in this condition and what causes it?

seen the same.still ate them though.whar causes it?

Thats the new "raw fish" model , bred already marinated, you just have to add the onion and cream etc.

Never seen them like that myself yet but does look weird, dont know if i would eat it ??

Mushy to fillet: needs to on the ice longer?

brmbrm wrote: Mushy to fillet: needs to on the ice longer?

Uncle right brmbrm, caught a few smaller snaps in Mokau over the years with this proplem. They are mushpacs no matter wot you do. I biff them, like the sickly Gurnhard with the spots, there fillets the same.

noticed i get more of them (still rare but more often) from shallow water 5-8m than in the depths 30m+. maybe something to do with water temp?

Yip have also had the odd snap like this..I suspect the fish was a bit crook,bad diet etc.My mate always feeds these fillets to his mrs and shes never complained

Interesting first popped up here back in 2015   and now 2023 and we are trreating it like something new?Kind of blows the lack of food out the window,seeing how snappergeoff got some at mokau.

Last time I fished in the firth, we took a lot of care to study the condition of the fish before keeping them. If they were even slightly thinner over the shoulder, then we put it back. It seemed to work well. Most of our fish had nice fillets, with only a couple starting to cloud up in colour.