Thread: Bleeding Tuna
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Old 06-12-2007, 02:35 PM   #16
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I read that you should club the tuna once in the boat to prevent bruising of the meat, then to use either a knife or spike to destroy the brain. Is this necessary or can you just bleed the fish out?
If you club it and kill the brain you've killed the fish and it won't bleed out. Even with the spinal cord thing they wait until the fish has bled out. You stop the heart you've stoped the blood pump.

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