fish cleaning

Preparing fresh catch

Fish cleaning is the process of preparing a caught fish for cooking by removing scales, guts, fins, and sometimes the head and bones.

The task can be done streamside or at a dedicated fish cleaning station.

He set up a table on the dock for fish cleaning.

The term also appears in marine biology for the symbiotic behavior where small fish or shrimp remove parasites from larger fish.

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Catching aquatic creatures

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Unbutchered aquatic creature

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