Seafood Products Association was getting ready to dispose of stored cans of seafood (salmon) that it had store for years. Before doing so, it decided to ask the University of Washington if it wanted stacks of dusty boxes of long-expired canned salmon. Researchers were able to recover parasites and reconstruct how infection burden that has changed over the course of 42 years in four salmon species and their effect on #marine mammal infection. #water #parasites #oceanhealth https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/decades-old-cans-of-salmon-reveal-changes-in-ocean-health/