How To Kill A Catfish Humanely

Sorry if this is gross for anyone but it is fast and effective.

How to kill a catfish humanely. Remove all the bad bits and stack them with the head. Hit your fish with a blunt object step 3. Then slide a thin piece of wire into the soft spot destroying the fishes brain and central nervous system. Rinse the fish to make sure all the mess is gone.

Humane killing requires that the fish is stunned rendered instantaneously insensible before being bled out. Consider your own ability and reaction. Make a 1 inch slit there with a razor blade. The quickest easiest humane method of killing a fish is percussive stunning.

Large catfish require a long piece of wire. Basically you make a small slit over the soft spot on their head between their eyes. The king is coming. The fish may quiver when the straw passes through its brain then it is dead.

Fish should remain in water until immediately prior to stunning. Follow up by filleting the fish. The stun and stab step 1. Locate the spot youd initially marked on the head and cut trough using a big sharp knife.

Percussive stunning involves striking a quick hard blow to the top of the fishs skull just behind the eyes. There are two methods that can be used to stun fish caught by hand. The fish will shutter for a few seconds and then go limp. Insert a heavy broom straw and push it toward the back of the catfish.

Fish less than 2 cm inch long can be killed instantly in a fish macerator which chops it. Cut a slit along the belly of the catfish all the way to the anal fin. Percussive stunning and spiking also known as pithing or iki jime. Grab your fish step 2.

Now you are ready to clean it.