oomis1105, you are eating tiny little critters all the time, you just don’t see them. So it’s only a matter of size that we’re talking about.
And what about gefilta fish or herring, going to stop eating that now?
The only safeguard is to make your own gefilta fish from scratch like we used to do and check the fillets yourself.
I wonder if the mashgichim who check for fish worms will do it the same way that lettuce and other vegetables are checked by the large companies such as Eden or Bodek. Instead of checking each lettuce leaf or floret, like you would do at home, the mashgiach checks a small batch from hundreds of pounds of produce. If the small batch is checked to be bug free after the entire amount is washed, then the entire amount is halachically bug free even though it’s not checked. So is there some kind halachic mechanism for this type of mass fish production or will each of tens of thousands of fillets be checked? And how can you trust this checking on such a massive scale? On the video, it seemed like a tedious job just to check and remove the worms from one cod filet; can you imagine doing it for hundreds or thousands of filets?