That’s right. Not everything revolves around NYC.
Copepods and most other ‘bugs’ are pagum so you don’t have to worry about their taste treifing up your pots when you end up cooking them. You do have to worry about birya, that is, having them whole. A whole birya never becomes botul so you can’t eat anything with those things in it.
When they go through a filter, they break apart and the water that comes through no longer has copepods that are birya.