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What are the brown striations in walleye flesh?

April 26, 2017Brown flesh striations walleye

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What are the brown striations in walleye flesh?

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The striations are caused by necrotic muscle fibers where lymphocytes have infiltrated. Lymphocytes are part of the immune system and are involved with inflammatory response to bacterial infections and parasites. Similar necrotic muscle lesions have been observed in crappie.