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How to Gut and Scale a Fish

By Hank Shaw, About.com

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A Gutted Fish

A cleanly gutted fish

A cleanly gutted fish

Holly Heyser

This is what you should have when you remove the guts. At this point you can scrape out the liver, which is attached to the backbone of the fish, and cut out what remains of the swim bladder, which is a whitish sac that also attaches itself to the cavity.

You are almost done!

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