Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Cleaning the fish, or gutting the fish, both get the message across.

Your written English is very good, Nikenik: you must have worked very hard on it.

Hi
Keep the liver (oil/fat) and roe (protein) rest of the guts including gills, throw in your compost bin.
Head and backbone(like gills) might be difficulte to grind/prosess raw, but give it a try, if so dump in compost.

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This might be a usefull read for some of you ?

http://www.aqualex.org/elearning/fish_f ... index.html

That's a good tip, but usually I just gut the fish (thanks PLJ! ) out on the ice and throw the waste down the hole.

Weird talking about ice fishing when the weather outside is high summer...

Thanks, will check the link out.

It might seem gross to us, but fish eat other fish whole.

If you are hoping for a small holding to grow most of your own food, don't waste the guts by throwing them away down the hole. Your chickens and compost bin would resent that kind of waste. Most things on a farm are not actually waste unless the operation is out of balance in some way. Waste from one portion of the farm is just nutrients for another portion of the farm. That includes the human manure too. I highly recommend the Humanure handbook. Even if you decide actually composting your own poo is not for you, the handbook can help you be sure your compost is well managed (it really isn't that hard.)

I've heard about that. But my oven is in my apartment, so I won't be cooking any fishwaste in it any time soon.

TCLynx: Yes, off course in a small holding nothing goes to waste.
Unfortunately I think there are laws against keeping chickens (and goats) in a two room apartment on the third floor in a small town in Sweden.
Nothings against aquaponics though...

I've read a lot of self sufficency books, including books about composting toilets. Will set one up a soon as I've gone "in to the wild".
It's actually quite common with compost toilets around here. There's usually to much of a hazzle and cost to have a new summer home connected to the public sewage system so people just put in compost toilets and use the grid for power and broadband internet.

How do they cook it

Poached.

Ah, I was thinking along the lines of one you move. I'm sure there are ways to get around the rules at least for a chicken but then it becomes a pet and you are unlikely to ever eat it so kinda defeats the purpose of being self sufficient.