Canning Tuna Fish and Salt Cod

Recipes for Canning Fish

*When canning tuna, you are going to need a pressure canner. The best quality for the price is from All American pressure canners.

Canning Tuna -How This Family Canned 300 Pounds of Tuna Fillets

 We got the Home Canning bug and loaded up our trunk with ice coolers, and drove to Newport, OR.  We talked with the skipper of the Two Sisters, and he told us we could call him when we were ready for Tuna Fillets  We pre-ordered 300 pounds of tuna from him and set the pick-up date.  

Fillet a Fish

We paid for our fish to be in tuna fillet form, because it's a real tough job to fillet a fish without wasting the meat.  (Note the photo of the skipper holding up the fish carcass).  Unless you have experience with this, it's worth the money to pay them to fillet it for you.  You'll pay a per pound price for the fish, and a per fish fillet fee.
 We packed the gallon zip bags of tuna fillets in our coolers and took them home to start processing fish by the dozens.  When Canning Food of all kinds, remember that processing fish should be done within hours, as soon as possible, to keep the end product a high-quality one.  
 For every pound of Fish you buy, it will fill approximately one quart jar.  This is only to give you a visual idea of amounts. It is not recommended you use quart jars for Canning Fish as the inside temperatures will be variable during the time in the pressure canner, posing a possible contamination risk.

Have enough pint or half pint jars, rings and lids on hand for the job.  Follow your pressure canner instructions for canning meat and fish and get your supplies all lined up before you pick up your tuna. We followed the 10/100 rule, which is 10 lbs of pressure for 100 minutes. You may be at a different altitude or have a different type of pressure canner, so do check the Pressure Canning Instructions that came with your Pressure Canner.

You can also fillet a fish using salt cod, salmon, crab meat, flounder, perch and snapper, to name a few.

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