The Joy of Cooking with Fish Heads

 Fish heads ♫ fish heads 

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Fish heads ♫ fish heads

Eat them up yum!

With increasing sales in aquaculture, the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization is working to make sure that small-scale fisherman and artisanal fish farmers also benefit from the economic growth. One idea is to actively market fish by-producsts, such as fish heads, fish bones and viscera.

Audun Lem, Chief of FAO’s Products, Trade and Marketing Branch stated, "We must ensure that these by-products are not wasted from an economic but also a nutritional point of view. By-products often have a higher nutritional value than fillets, particularly in terms of essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, and can constitute an excellent means of combating micronutrient deficiencies in developing countries."

Read more about the UN's efforts and cooking with fish heads on NPR's The Salt. And of course Kanaloa Seafood Market has fresh fish heads and bones for amazing stocks, soups and curries. Give us a call at 805-966-5159 and we'll set some aside for you. We'll see you soon!