Feeding Trial Harvest 2

First, it was 75 zebrafish. Now, it's 120 yellowtail kingfish...

Feeding trial #2 :

Went out to Sardi yesterday to harvest 120 yellowtail kingfish, which we'd been feeding different diets and antioxidants for 3 months...

Mel, Alex, Jeff, and I, before the butchering... I mean... filleting began

12 tanks, with 10 yellowtail kingfish per tank

Couldn't take any pictures while we were filleting and gutting the fish, because our hands were just too slimy and bloody. Weighed, bagged, and tagged the fillets and livers from each fish, and tried to finish the whole process quickly, before we moved on to scrubbing and cleaning out the tanks. You'd be amazed how much poo the fish can produce... :) Eeewww...

The whole process took about 6 hours altogether. Thank goodness there were 4 of us doing it, otherwise who knows how long we would've taken if there had been fewer people to help :P

The end product : 120 left fillets for biochemical analyses at 4 degrees celsius.
Livers and remaining fillets stored at - 80 degrees for more lipid and antioxidant analyses.

All of us smelled of fish at the end of the day, and Kathy had so much practice with filleting and gutting the fish, that she wanted to take up fishing (to fillet and gut more fish...). I think I know some people who could help teach her to fish, just that they're not here at the moment ;)

Went home with a strange desire to have fish for dinner that night.

Sashimi, anyone? :)