***THE BEST*** How To Fillet a BIG Fish (Yellowfin Tuna for Sushi)/How to Clean a Fish

[Bendemo05]

Hey boys sorry bout that, you'll have to thank my son for that other comment, sorry if he offended ya, now banned from my you tube account, gotta get back to hacking my tuna.

[ChefLed808]

@Bendemo05 get a grip! In your video you were just hacking away at everything. This video shows true skill. You make my day by thinking you're so good

[Bendemo05]

Check out the video "how to cut a tuna in 4 minutes" that guy is heaps better. Oh by the way, I'm that guy.

[joelovesfishin]

@Bendemo05 "Heaps better". I don't think so.

[george3dmax]

i'll never find this fresh tuna in my country......

[fazreensyuhada]

i think i know this fillet guy! omg!

[Bonedaddy500]

By wetting the knife does that help in the filleting?

[MrVaypour]

Wustoff Dreizack seems to be the favourite choice.

[SuperIrbo]

this tuna is probably about 30-40 kg (70-90 pound), which is very little for a yellow tuna. The average weight for an adult tuna is 140 kg, which means this tuna is still very young. Overfishing and fishing young tunas (before they are fully grown) are now making tuna's an endangered species. Seeing this made me both sad and angry, shame on you fisherman!

[Robdoggh]

@SuperIrbo

The average reproductive size of a yellowfin tuna is 39 inches, which appears to be the same size as the one in this video. The size of a mature tuna varies greatly depending on the species; you will never see a skipjack tuna that weighs 140 kg.

Incidentally, yellowfin tuna are in no way an endangered species (although bluefin tuna are quite threatened).

[hospitaldancing]

@SuperIrbo get educated. only one species of tuna (bluefin) is even close to being threatened, they're so regulated that there's no possible way to overfish them in the states. yer huggin the wrong tree my man.

[untipable]

@SuperIrbo Tell me where i can go find 140kg yellow fins for an average, cause i want to fish there. Cause a good yellow fin is 90kg.

[007ATDuncan]

Mmmm yellow tuna

[m1garand77]

what kind of knives?

[StevieTeaHawkins]

ancient chinese secret

[fitzgerald94]

i want a knife like that

[oOmpdpOo]

asians: beast at everything from math to dancing to filleting fish

[TheLemon4you]

To have a Tuna like this on my line would be a dream come true!

[jasong2xaccount]

So many unnecessary cuts!!! No need to decapitate or cut tail. Get a better knife so u don't have to fuck up the top fillets! Dumbass wasting tuna

[Taffytyrann]

0:25 The fish felt that.... xD

[jawbreaker480]

@Taffytyrann and 1:18

[davross11]

there usually gilled and gutted and bleed onboard commercial fishing boats , they usually bleed them by cutting a small wedge just behind head , into a main artery wich runs along the top of the spine , that's how i receive most of them anyway but do receive them bleed under pectorial fin also , probably just quicker behind head but as nice presentation.

[davross11]

good job thats how i cut yellowfin here in sydney and sometimes much bigger usually get about 60% return but use a different knife to those guys ,i use a 9 " dexter russell ,more like a traditional filleting knife and only about $40 that looks more like a knife i'd use to cutlet salmon but i'd like to try one , they must cut alot of tuna , we send alot of our waste to the pelican feeding and sea bird rescue.

[ElfenLiedPhsycoFan]

O__O Insane!!!!!! Amazing!! Loving it!

[Beachnut10021]

now if ANYONE tells me they can get more meat off a fish than that..than ima tell them that they are out of they're gord!

[showtime15o]

Question - how does the man not puncture the guts? Thanks!

[heavyq]

I would kill for one of those knives.

[bigbill262]

@heavyq hey i want one of them knives too , what brand are they

[fvang199]

wow! dude take the head off like nothiong!

[TheFFFQQQZZZ]

@mikeyg099 im new to spearing to how do u bleed a fish

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-spearoboy

[superdonyoungy]

@TheFFFQQQZZZA Bleeding a tuna is different to normal, which is essentially cutting its throat right through under where the body joins the gill area so you can pull the head back and let the blood out, under the pectorals on a tuna ( the side wings tuck in) you have a recessed groove on each side, cut down and across here and the blood will gush out and not flood the fillets.

[myfeet14]

damn you cleaned that tuna out! Nice work. No meat left just bones

[kevinwang05]

i wanted to deleate that commat but it did not let me

[masterairsofter67]

@kevinwang05 you sir are a fuckin dumb ass that is definatley a tuna yallow fin to be exact

[phum4677]

holy fuck! they're big!

[pastorius1011]

Is it Makurazaki here? This kind of kitchen knife is called "Naginata houchou". It is very unique and rarely looks in Japan.

[heheman3000]

@mikeyg099 That's the blood line of the fish, it's cut off and the skin pulled off to get the final filet.

[Soehnle29]

What do they do with the rest of the remains?

[silvermediastudio]

@Soehnle29 Options might include: used to make fish stock, donated to homeless (there's some meat left), ground up for animal feed, used as bait, dump it back into the ocean.

[Soehnle29]

@silvermediastudio Wow, I want to work like that! How can I do it?

[silvermediastudio]

@Soehnle29 Assuming you live near the ocean, look up some local fish mongers or commercial fisherman, and ask if they are hiring, and train new people. You sure you want to go home smelling like fish and covered in scales every night?

[dustyflair]

what do they do with the tuna head?

[tkkam100]

@mikeyg099 The extremely dark park is the bloodline which is usually cut off and discarded. Tuna is a very dark red fish but certain tunas are caught at specific times of the year when they binge eat and get ready to migrate. These times they're flesh stores a lot of fat for migration. I'm guessing this tuna wasn't caught in season.

[henrychannn]

oh wow.

[Sebolonius]

Tuna meat is always so red its just the way it is....

[4tm0sphere]

surgeon!



[jumpstartall]

@mikeyg099 i think the colour of meat is generally a reflection of how much "exercise" the fish has had, no? ergo the more exercise, the darker and more flavourful. this is just what i remember reading off somewhere.

[larukulunaseas]

what about all the meat in between in ribs?

[aznexile602]

Thats a sharp knife!

[cottoncandychic]

lol its like a horror movie at 0:25

[ScotWalt858]

@mikeyg099 The darkest of the red meat that you are seeing is the blood line. The bloodline extends outward from the spine and is normally discarded.

[senk666]

... bałbym się stać koło tak ostrego noża...

[taweel85]

awesome



[samsosa714]

@mikeyg099 the reason they are that red is bc that part of the fish is blood line...it runs along the side of the yellowfin but once that part is cut off it gets lighter to where the fillet parts are

[dareelinjury]

@mikeyg099 the red is the myoglobin, since tuna never stop moving they need lots of oxygen which the myoglobin helps with and is red. Redder the meat the higher quality the tuna usually.

[Th3Gam3rs]

have i end up here i was on best mmorpg game's wtf?

[Epasser100]

i love good recipes and fish.

[jockeyhanes]

the head is good for tinola or sinugbang panga, oh yessss miss those...the guy is great too!

[HappyyFeet93]

what knife is he using??

does any one know??

[Japstuff1998]

Wow, the way japanese people cut and consume a fish is amazing, I can just imagine a school opened by japanese people in australia or america with a big "Fish Cutting and Filleting School. Learn how to cut and fillet fish like a japanese chef" sign. and the school would be very successful too

[geotk]

tuna fish

sushi fish

[joelovesfishin]

@mikeyg099 Tuna have a darker red meat then most fish.

[schubertlauren]

that knife must be so sharp lol

[icychillgrill3]

@schubertlauren From high carbon to stainless, Japanese steel is the best.

[dawg1157]

Good looking fish....never actually seen a real Yellow Tail before.

[MrJin520]

@dawg1157 I know this is an old comment, but I just wanted to let you know that this is Yellow Fin, not Yellow Tail. Two very different fish.

[LivingAfterMetal]

Very intersting Joe. Thanks 4 posting, your clips are excellent.

[Figbrain1]

u kno all you really need for a nice fillet is a realy sharp knife and the know-how

[joelovesfishin]

Its at the Awase Port right at the entrance. It's the restaurant/fish store, but getting them to clean your fish is 50/50. You have to grab them in the back and ask there.

[ballackbeckham]

Hey, I live on Okinawa, im going fishing out of awase port soon, can you tell me where this place is, so i can get my fish cleaned by these guys?