How to Clean Freshly Caught Salmon

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Take the salmon

   Holding the fish by the tail towards you, slice away from yourself towards the collar, carefully tracing the rib-cage and spine.
   
   Flip the fish over and repeat on the other side.
   
   Either skin the fish now, or leave it for after cooking/freezing.
   
   For removing the skin, simply slice the meat into two fillets with the skin on one half and dispose.
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   Step 2: and if you are right handed face the tail to the left.

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   Step 3: With your left hand

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   Step 4: grab the collar bone and with your right hand

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   Step 5: slice the cartilage from the chin to the collar.

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   Step 6: Grab the gills with your left hand and follow the edge of the gill with your knife.

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   Step 7: Rip the gill out.

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   Step 8: Make an incision at the urethra and holding your knife at a 45 degree angle to the cutting surface slice the fish to an inch and a half from the collar.

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   Step 9: Grab the "guts" with your left hand and carefully slice two semi-circles to the left and the right of the "guts" inside the collar.

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    Step 10: Pull out the guts.

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    Step 11: Slice the kidney line and scrape out the kidneys.

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    Step 12: Wash out the fish with water.

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    Step 13: Start filleting the salmon.

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