<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div>http://www.tworiverstribune.com/2013/10/parasite-found-in-local-salmon/ <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><h1 style="padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 3px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 24px; font-family: Georgia; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: url(http://www.tworiverstribune.com/wp-content/themes/TRT/images/basket-pattern.png); background-attachment: initial;
background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(81, 75, 49); background-position: 5px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat repeat; ">Parasite Found in Local Salmon</h1><div class="entry" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana, tahoma, sans-serif; "><div id="attachment_9483" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; display: block; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); text-align: center; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; width: 460px; "><img class="size-full wp-image-9483" title="19-41 Salmon Parasite" src="http://www.tworiverstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/19-41-Salmon-Parasite.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="355" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style:
none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; "><div class="wp-caption-text" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 4px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11px; ">Cysts containing the Henneguya parasite’s spores were found in donated fish. / Photos courtesy of Julia Hostler</div></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">By RHONDA BIGOVICH, Two Rivers Tribune</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">Chinook salmon caught in the Klamath River were found infested with a white and egg-shaped
parasite named Henneguya embedded in their muscle tissues.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">The parasite was first found in Sweden and Canada. It can be transferred from fish to fish.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">While at sea, the fish are subjected to sea lice that attach themselves. The sea lice eat the skin and blood of the fish, breaking their first layer of outer protection, which allows the parasite to enter the body.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">Hoopa Tribal Fisheries
Deputy Director George Kautsky said the Heeneguya parasite won’t cause any health issues in humans.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">“The Parasite is not a health hazard,” Kautsky said.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">Hoopa Tribal Fisheries sent the sample to the U.S. Fish and Game Wildlife Service at the California Nevada Fish Health Care Service.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">According to the pathology report issued by the Us Fish and Wildlife Service it said, “Fluid filled
cysts in muscle contained Henneguya zschokkei spores. This myxosporean parasite is not a human threat.”</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">Julia Hostler, project coordinator for the Fish for Elders Program, said, “The first donation that the parasite was discovered in was received on September 17.”</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">“We sent the first half to the Hoopa Fisheries Department,” Hostler said. “We disposed of the second half.”</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;
">Fisheries has received more reports and sightings of the parasites in the Hoopa Valley.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">“Most people dispose of the fish when they catch them,” Kautsky said.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">With the Klamath River at an all-time low, its ability to clean itself may be reduced.</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">Hostler said, “The Fish for Elders Program will not give fish to the elders that are contaminated with diseases or
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