For now, the average fish consumer should take their cue from Wood, a researcher well acquainted with the reality of eating fish.
"So if I'm being honest with you, there are worms in everything you eat," Wood told an audience at the Seattle Aquarium in 2020.
"But cooking kills the menagerie of parasites that we find in our food, and it's only when we eat raw or undercooked food that we wind up tangling with live and infectious parasites."
Besides, she added, "when you eat these parasites, you get to be part of a natural cycle that links plankton to fish to whales to you."