METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE ROUND OF FISH IN PARTICULAR MECHANICAL REMOVING THE GUTS OF FISH

摘要

By inserting, in a procedure for the cleaning of roundfish, including especially removal of gut from fish such as cod, coalfish, haddock, salmon, trout and similar roundfish where the fish is retained during cutting and gut removal, a gill holder (9, 10) into each of the fish (1) gill clefts, by closing gill holders (9, 10) around the fish head while forming a corner at a contiguous angle (38) of 20-50, preferably 30 DEG by the fish throat point (4), by moving a back head support (12) at the fish back head (5) forward and bringing it to bear predetermined pressure against the back head so that the fish head by the throat point is pressed against the corner which, as mentioned above, is formed by the two gill holders (9, 10) moved towards each other, a brand new retaining of a roundfish is achieved in the approximately triangle head cross section between the fish throat point and back head, and also the fish is having its throat point placed in the same place regardless of the roundfish size, i.e. where the two gill holders meet to form said corner. This in turn entails that much more accurate cuts can be made, and far more accurate cuts in the fish can be made, than possible so far.