We chose a lovely calm autumn day to harvest fish from our aquaponics systems as our freezer supplies had been used up. We tend to do a big harvest every now and then, which involves removing the lids (which we use as we have grandchildren) and pumps, creating barriers and then scooping with nets!

As each decent/plate sized fish is caught they are placed in eskies of ice slurry. This harvest resulted in 17 fish of filleting size, including this whopper that barely fitted in the esky!

We set up a filleting station in the shade outside, so clean up is so much easier!

These days we only fillet for the freezer- they take up a lot less space than a whole fish and are much more versatile to use. Once we have all the fillets ready, they are vacuum packed, labelled and frozen ready for use!