Every fish you pick up by the tail wrecks the back half of the flesh. It breaks the back bones and blood vessels, flooding the meat with blood giving the whole fish an unsellable quality. Ya gotta pick them up and move them by the head. just my two cents from an old salmon killer myself.
False information Bud. Fish have one bloodline running through its spine to its brain but it takes gutting and scraping to get rid of the bloodline. You can't break it by handling it and also fish have pinbones. Very flexible bones that can't break. Might I add you said quote on quote ''it ruins the flesh''. Well you don't eat the skin. You leave the skin on the fish when you cook it up depending if you like the fishy sea taste when you eat it
@@akbullrider1 Ah Nope, thats the kidney line. The main blood vessel goes thru the spine. But whatever. After watching many seining vlogs, this was the only one where the crew was doing just about everything wrong.
@@akbullrider1 Ok, I only wrote a booklet on proper salmon handling back in the late 80's Lifting salmon by the tail also pulls the spinal vertabra apart and breaks the flesh as well as floods the tail section of the fish with blood bruising.
I can understand why you feel this. But if you look up the harvest rates and escapement Alaska salmon is doing jussssssssst fine. This is a old ass video. And we’re still slaying lots of salmon
