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How to Fillet Fish
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Caution: Lionfish are venomous, not poisonous. The venom can stay active for months even if frozen. Take great care around the 18 spines contained in the dorsal, pelvic and anal fins. The venom will go inert when thoroughly cooked. To fillet you may either wear cut resistant gloves and work with the fish carefully or cut the spines off with a good pair of shears carefully disposing of them.
To Fillet, no need to gut or scale the fish.
Step 1: Make a cut behind the pectoral fin.
Step 2: Work the knife along the top of fish (lateral line) from the 1st cut down to the tail.
Step 3: Work the knife along the bottom of the fish from 1st cut to tail.
Step 4: Remove fillet by lifting and cutting to maximize the flesh removed.
Step 5 & 6: Repeat steps 1-4 on the other side.
Step 7: Carefully slide knife between skin and flesh to create fillet.
Step 8: Trim away any bones.
Step 9: See "How to Recipes" section for how to cook.
Be sure to use a sharp knife, quality cutting board and cut resistant gloves with non-slip grip such as those offered by Aquatic Hunt
How to Fillet a Fish
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How to Clean Lobster
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Step 1: Remove tail from body. To retain the most flesh use a knife to cut up inside the body before pulling of tail. Otherwise a twist to the left and twist to the right then pull works well.
Step 2: Remove the waste track (poop) by breaking off one antenna and inserting it into the waste track at the base of the tail. Pull out the antenna and the waste track and discard.
Step 3: The tail may be prepared for cooking in 1 of 3 ways:
1. Cut the top of the tail shell open with good shears and splay open.
2. Cut the bottom of the tail shell with good shears and splay open.
3. Cut both and remove the flesh from the shell. Depending on when the lobster is preparing to molt this may be easy of very difficult.
Step 4: See "How to Recipes" section for how to cook.
Be sure to use a sharp knife, dive shears, quality cutting board and cut resistant gloves with non-slip grip such those offered by Aquatic Hunt.
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