Quinte Fishing

i got a fishl thurs night that had a large tumor grouing out of its head and belly it was 29.5 by 17.5
?? is this normal what should you do with a fish like this ?? i let it go
should it be turned over to the m n r the fish hit hard and played good
this fish was very ugly??

David,
The growths you saw are common. I asked the mnr at Glenora and they sent me a sheet describing it. Basically it is a skin disease. It usually appears in a population when there is a large number of fish. Apparently the meat is safe to eat. My personal best fish was covered in them (15.6). Disappointing for the picture.

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It's called lymphocystis. It gets spread around fish during close contact, generally during spawn. I would suspect that its roots are viral. Ugly as sin, but not contagious from species to species.

Lymophocystis is a large virus that penetrates the cytoplasm of the body cells of the fish, usually interstitial cells, and causes this disease. The infected cells start to grow, often to quite gigantic proportions. These "tumours" may appear to be multi-faceted.

Accumulation of these cells produces the typical pathological picture of lumpy growths. These growths or tumours are due to the expansion of individual cells and not due to cell replication; this is a unique feature of lymphocystis disease. By this definition, lymphoscystis is not a cancerous cell form.

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