What is Pressure Bleeding and how its use results in higher quality salmon fillets

Pressure Bleeding is a way of bleeding fish that we learned from our friend, a local fisherman named Bill Webber, in the small town of Cordova Alaska.

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When the head and heart of the salmon are removed while the salmon is still fresh, we then introduce a small water needle into the Hepatic vein just behind the heart and flush all of the blood through the dorsal aorta and back out the afferent gill arteries.

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Doing this produces beautiful fillets completely free of blood and results in a far better overall taste.