Re: Shrimp & Cotton Disease

feeds@yuku.com (gregoryd47) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:41:46 PST

Thanks for the info on this disease, Ive ate alot of shrimp and never had any bad affects. But I never looked to see if they had it or not. I will be looking really hard the next cleaning session, again thanks

Re: Shrimp & Cotton Disease

feeds@yuku.com (Moonshine) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:59:44 PST

Crappie this is the second time I have read your sick report on this bad 8"shrimp you guys caught on the Titusville pier. You first posted it as a reply to me on our old site.

Cotton is getting worse with the warm weather this year I thinks. My Fri night limit had about 15 or more in all sizes of IRS.

Re: Shrimp & Cotton Disease

feeds@yuku.com (CaptLeeNoga) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:38:21 PST

sobersurfer wrote:
Great photos, I had read about this and never seen it firsthand. Now I know. Didn't know about not using them for bait or throwing them back, either.

I think the cotton disease was worse this year in the Oak Hill and Edgewater area. As the season is a nearing the end, we are culling the shrimp and releasing the smaller sizes. I cannot begin to tell you how many we boated with cotton [and in all sizes]. We had a nice jumbo that was ate up with it and it is a wonder the shrimp matured to the jumbo size being so diseased.

Glad your reading and learning the ropes. Next year you will be a walking encyclopedia and will be able to school a new member here. It is all circle of life Biggrin

Re: Shrimp & Cotton Disease

feeds@yuku.com (sobersurfer) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:12:26 PST

Great photos, I had read about this and never seen it firsthand. Now I know. Didn't know about not using them for bait or throwing them back, either.

Re: Shrimp & Cotton Disease

feeds@yuku.com (crappie king) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:52:23 PST

Back in the 70's my friend and I had been shrimping off the old wooden Titusville pier. We caught an 8" shrimp that had this strange color to it, cotton disease as we now know. No one then had any idea what it was and was rarely seen back then. He took the catch home from that night about 12 or so and ate them for a snack before going to bed. Well it made him violently ill. From then on I kne wto never eat one no matter what caused his problem. I just bury them out in the garden.

Re: Shrimp & Cotton Disease

feeds@yuku.com (cudac30) — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:57:25 PST

Very informative information. I for one can attest to not harming you.
I have cleaned and cooked them in the past with no ill effects. I guess my mind set
is on waste not, want not and not being very lnowledgeable about cotton in shrimp.

Re: Shrimp & Cotton Disease

feeds@yuku.com (CaptLeeNoga) — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:38:01 PST

More cotton pictures from my shrimp caught in 2010:

Re: Shrimp & Cotton Disease

feeds@yuku.com (wishiniwasfishin) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:41:38 PST

Scratch that last post. 3 in my last batch. Just finished poppin' heads

Re: Shrimp & Cotton Disease

feeds@yuku.com (wishiniwasfishin) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:34:24 PST

Haven't seen one so far this season. Which is good news. Just to reiterate. MAKE SURE not to let infected shrimp get back in the ecosystem. Even using them as bait is BAD. Other fish eat them, their waste contains the microorganism, and the cycle repeats itself.

Shrimp & Cotton Disease

feeds@yuku.com (CaptLeeNoga) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:19:43 PST

The eco system in the river is fragile and carries an interesting progression of disease communicated among varied species of life. As anglers we see infected fish and forget that these fish were infected from a diseased shrimp. Shrimp are prone to a couple if diseases but the most common is the "cotton" disease a single cell protozoan parasite called a microsporidian.

If you eat a shrimp with cotton disease will you die? Nope, so knock that off your list on how best to get get back at your boss. I know, you cannot even reduce your enemy to a bad case of GI distress.

However, cotton disease in shrimp DOES affect taste and the visuals of a shrimp infected will affect appetite.

What is cotton disease?

A protozoan that affects the muscular architecture of the shrimp. It is most commonly found in the head or reproductive area or abdominal area. They appear as tiny white or grey tumors, hence the slang, "Cotton". The disease can appear as black or blue...