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Ikejime (活け締め) or ikijime (活き締め) is a method of killing fish that maintains the quality of its meat. [1] The technique originated in Japan, but is now in widespread use. It involves the insertion of a spike quickly and directly into the hindbrain, usually located slightly behind and above the eye, thereby causing immediate brain ...
Aristotle (ca. 340 B.C.) may have been the first scientist to speculate on the use of hard parts of fishes to determine age, stating in Historica Animalium that “the age of a scaly fish may be told by the size and hardness of its scales.” [4] However, it was not until the development of the microscope that more detailed studies were performed on the structure of scales. [5]
[4] Fish and other aquatic animals live in a different light environment than terrestrial species do. Water absorbs light so that with increasing depth the amount of light available decreases quickly. The optical properties of water also lead to different wavelengths of light being absorbed to different degrees. For example, visible light of ...
Eyestalk ablation. The eyestalks of female shrimp are often removed (ablated) to improve reproduction. The red dotted line indicates the location on a shrimp where the eye stalk is cut or cauterised during ablation. Eyestalk ablation is the removal of one (unilateral) or both (bilateral) eyestalks from a crustacean.
Fish preservation is the method of increasing the shelf life of fish and other fish products by applying the principles of different branches of science in order to keep the fish, after it has landed, in a condition wholesome and fit for human consumption. [1][2] Ancient methods of preserving fish included drying, salting, pickling and smoking.
Cutting CL (1955) Fish saving; a history of fish processing from ancient to modern times, L. Hill. FAO and WHO (2012) Codex Alimentarius: Code of practice for fish and fishery products Rome. ISBN 978-92-5-107018-5. Hall GM (1997) Fish processing technology Springer, ISBN 978-0-7514-0273-5.
Hōchō, Japanese kitchen knives in Tokyo. A Japanese kitchen knife is a type of kitchen knife used for food preparation. These knives come in many different varieties and are often made using traditional Japanese blacksmithing techniques. They can be made from stainless steel, or hagane, which is the same kind of steel used to make Japanese ...
Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks on the foreshore.The drying racks are known as fish flakes.Cod is the most common fish used in stockfish production, though other whitefish, such as pollock, haddock, ling and tusk, are also used.