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I eat salmon liver and hearts. I do it Venitian-style, thin-sliced, cooked with onions (lots) and vinager. (Venitian liver is generally veal fwiw). It's pretty good, but better if the pan is mostly onions honestly. I'm careful to cut the gall bladder (green bubble) off without piercing it when I remove the liver from the fish. The hearts go in the pan too, but they are smaller, tougher, and don't add much compared to the size of the livers. A chinook liver from a 20+ fish can go maybe 1/2 pound? That's a lot of nutrition to waste IMHO.
 
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Never tried the liver of a fish but why not if it is big enough to make it worth while. Cod liver oil is mostly shark liver oil. I do eat the roe as caviar (marinated in salt brine for a couple of hours) and have on occasion cooked up the milt sacks but they are nothing special. The fat on a fish is where all the toxins tend to collect.

Do use caution in eating the roe and milt of some fish. Cabezon milt and roe are toxic. Most other rock fish are fine.

  • Symptoms of cabezon egg poisoning, also known as ichthyootoxism, include abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, intense thirst, bitter taste, trouble swallowing, cold sweats, rapid irregular weak pulse, and dilated pupils. In severe cases, symptoms include muscular cramps, convulsions, and coma.


 
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LGB said:
Never tried the liver of a fish but why not if it is big enough to make it worth while. Cod liver oil is mostly shark liver oil. I do eat the roe as caviar (marinated in salt brine for a couple of hours) and have on occasion cooked up the milt sacks but they are nothing special. The fat on a fish is where all the toxins tend to collect.

Do use caution in eating the roe and milt of some fish. Cabezon milt and roe are toxic. Most other rock fish are fine.

  • Symptoms of cabezon egg poisoning, also known as ichthyootoxism, include abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, intense thirst, bitter taste, trouble swallowing, cold sweats, rapid irregular weak pulse, and dilated pupils. In severe cases, symptoms include muscular cramps, convulsions, and coma.


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Probably wouldn’t eat a cabezon at all anyway…
 
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Halibutt poker said:
Ok. That I would try. But just a fish organ cooked is not for me. My son fried bass roe in butter once. Game over.
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Fair enough. By the end of the season this year the organs were starting to gross me out by themselves, since I was eating a pile of them every time I caught a fish.

I need more recipes for milt. I have cooked sea urchin gonads into pasta sauce before and it came out great… maybe salmon milt would be good that way too.
 
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I think I barfed all over my keyboard just thinking about stuffing some salmon milt in my mouth... :sick: 🤮

I toss mine out to the crawdads and baby salmon smolt in the river, or if I'm at a fish cleaning station, then I'm a seagulls best friend.
 
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