hi all, went for a fish yesterday and we caught 3 juvenile mullas and 3 tailor of roughly 40cm. the tailor came home for dinner and the mullas were released.

my question is, is it ok to eat one of the tailor which we found some sort of tick on? it was only one very small tick-like parasite near its tail above the anal fin. i havent yet filleted it to see what the flesh is like. if the wife wasnt carrying our own little parasite  i would just cook it and eat it, simply because ive already gutted it and hate wasting fish, and cooking should kill anything harmful.

do you guys have any experience with these tick like things? i wish i had of snapped a photo of it but i didnt think to. a quick search on google and FW didnt bring much up for me that looked like it. it was very small, 2mm at most, a round body with all of it legs exposed, yellowish white sandy colour.