1, put a small basin of clear water, pour the fish in, then gently stir with your hands to precipitate the dirty things, then pick up the fish with a colander and rinse it three or four times.

2. In addition, you can pour the fish into the filter, turn on the tap and let the flowing water wash slowly. Let it stand for a few minutes after washing, drain the water and start cooking.

3. If it is still not clean, you can wash the fish and scald it with boiling water, so you can eat it safely.

Extended data

Small whitebait

Grugni Weng, also called California Grugni Weng, is a small marine food fish. The body is slender and light in color, with a length of 5 to 8 inches (12.5 to 20 cm). From cheek to tail, there is a silver stripe on each side of the body. There are no teeth in the mouth. Small whitebait only lives on the coast of southern California and the Pacific coast of Baja California. On some bright moonlight nights between March and August, the small whitebait will go ashore with the high tide to lay eggs.

morphological character

Small whitebait, slender. It is nearly cylindrical, with a slightly flat rear section and a body length of about 12 cm.

The head is extremely flat. Big eyes, big mouth, long and sharp kiss, triangular. The upper and lower jaws are equal in length; There are a row of fine teeth on the maxilla, maxilla, mandible and mouth cover, and there are 1 pair of canine teeth in the front of mandible. There is no combined anterior bone at the front end of mandible, but there is a fleshy protrusion. Dorsal fin ⅱ 1 1 ~ 13, slightly behind the body.

The pectoral fins are 8 ~ 9, and the muscle base is not significant. Gluteal fin Ⅲ 23 ~ 28, opposite to dorsal fin; There is a row of large scales on both sides of the base of the male fish's gluteal fin, which is generally 18 ~ 2 1. There is a transparent lipid fin in the center of dorsal fin and caudal fin.

The body is soft and scaleless, transparent, and milky white after death. Some whitebait in the market is fumigated with sulfur to keep fresh and protect color, and it turns khaki after standing. Be careful not to buy it. There is a row of black spots on both sides of the body, and there are two rows of parallel black spots on the ventral surface, which extend from the chest through the abdomen to the front of the gluteal fin, and are separated left and right along the base of the gluteal fin, and the rear end is combined into one to reach the caudal base.

In addition, the caudal fin and the first fin of pectoral fin are also dotted with small black spots. The whitebait in Zhuhu Lake is the top grade because of its small size and good meat transparency, and because of the transmission of dark spots, it is bright gray as a whole.

Baidu Encyclopedia: Little Whitebait