If you want to eat a fish that is being served whole, cut its head off first, just behind its gills.

Select soft, uncooked bones that are easy to break down. Bones from other small animals like fish, rabbits, and rodents also work. Know where your fish are coming from. How to Eat Fish on the Bone Step 1. With a distinctive appearance and a meaty succulent taste, it’s no wonder that salmon is one of the best fish to eat. There's a dead-simple trick that makes it not only easy to find the pin bones, but also easier to pluck them. Your support helps wikiHow to create more in-depth illustrated articles and videos and to share our trusted brand of instructional content with millions of people all over the world. We know ads can be annoying, but they’re what allow us to make all of wikiHow available for free.

Step 3. We reserve the right to delete off-topic or inflammatory comments. Shad are especially bony, but northern pike, pickerel, carp, herring, squawfish, mooneye, buffalofish and many other fish are also born with extra sets of bones. Most fish fillets will be de-boned, but you will still want to be careful. Scrape away the little bones along back bone, and remove skin and those bones to the plate for the bones.Make a slit from the neck to the tail along the middle top seam cutting just through to the middle bone.

It’s also a great nutritional choice, as this fish is high in vitamin D and omega-3 oils, and low in contaminants. Her work has appeared in numerous online publications. She mixed the powder—a ground-up mystery blend of various Chinese herbs and dried good—with water to brew a foul liquid she claimed would "melt" the fish bones stuck inside my throat. If not, you can do it yourself. And as you eat, watch for bones — there could be a few that have escaped you! If you can go with picking out big bones from fish before cooking/eating then there is this Chinese (as far as I know) method to soften smaller bones - like smaller bones in a Carp's back.

Herring are one of the world’s best sources of vitamin D, a vitamin that protects bone, prevents breast and prostate cancers, and boosts heart health.

You can leave the skin on if it is crispy but it is easier to bone it out if you remove it and especially if it is blackened or torn.