Re: fish carcasses

[Guest guest]

Hi Chris:

You can call your local seafood departments and have them order it for you.

Marla

> In any case, question: Does anyone know where fish carcasses are

available?

> It seems the seafood sections of most supermarkets, mainstream and whole

> foods type, do not carry whole fishes. I'd like to make some soup out of

> them if I could find it.

>

> Thanks for any help,

> Chris

>

[Guest guest]

At 02:47 PM 7/19/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>In any case, question: Does anyone know where fish carcasses are available?

>It seems the seafood sections of most supermarkets, mainstream and whole

>foods type, do not carry whole fishes. I'd like to make some soup out of

>them if I could find it.

Chris:

Ours does -- if you ask them, they will save the bones when they filet fish.

Most markets around here have a fish department.

If your markets don't carry whole fish, try a specialized fish store.

Or, an oriental market: they have GREAT fish, and the SELL the bones

and heads (apparently their clientele are more educated as to the

use of bones!).

Heidi

[Guest guest]

hi, chris--

i get my fish carcasses free at an asian fish mkt. i just call up

ahead of time and ask them to save them for me. otherwise, they just

throw them out. (i suppose that demand varies according to region.)

a word regarding the heads:

i always remove the gills. once, when i didn't know better, i gave

heads w/gills to my dog, who became quite ill for one day. the next

time i gave her fish, she ate around the gills. when my cousin the

seafd mkt manager saw this, she praised delilah and explained that

her asian customers always request that the gills be removed. i don't

know why, but i'll follow their lead.

allene