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cluckmecoop7

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Is there anything useful/interesting I could use this brook trouts backbone for? And what about the tail and the fin?

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If you had more, you could make fish stock for a soup or chowder. I don't usually bother on smaller fish.

Salmon I fillet off the bones. Those bones I brine, then smoke along with the collars. Those make good snacks. Tuna bones I make stock with if I do the loin removal. Collars are treated like salmon and smoked.

I do confess that I'm more likely to just use bonito flakes to make a fish stock as they store a long time if the cats don't beg them all off me.
 

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I would just bury them in the garden.

yeah, down deep enough the raccoonians can't smell them.

i'd never even think of cooking them or making a stock. we just don't eat fish here very often unless it is canned salmon or tuna. yeah, sad, i know... :/
 

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When I cook salmon, I skin it first. The strong flavor is in the skin... so... cooking w/o skin is preferred. But, I never throw that skin away. I fry it up, and snip it into little bits with my kitchen shears for the chickens.
 

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Your chickens must love you.

Fried fish skin is great for eating. That's one of my favorite parts. Makes it worth the scaling.

I prefer the oily fish like trout, sturgeon, salmon and tuna. They all do have strong flavors.

White fish aren't my favorite. Some of them I can't stand like tilapia.
 

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I'm turned off re: tilapia after hearing how it's raised in China. I would eat it if it was raised here in the states. For that matter, I'm trying not to buy ANYTHING from china now. Salmon is my favorite, and I prefer farm raised! I find it milder and more tender than it's wild counterpart. As for fish that can be caught locally: I've not done much fishing, but will eat just about any type of fish. Love crabs and lobster. Can't eat bivalves: deadly allergic. Some day, I want to try snapper turtle and frogs legs.
 

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Here are some articles about farm raised salmon:


 
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