Description: Iki jime involves spiking the brain of fish, causing immediate brain death. Iki jime will minimise fish stress and maximise the quality and storage life of the flesh.
An important part of fishing today is releasing fish and only taking home what you need for a feed. Even so, recreational anglers harvest millions of finfish each year. Anglers can improve the welfare of fish in many ways, not only by observing best practice fishing methods, but by protecting and restoring fish habitat and water quality (see ozfish.org.au for more details), by obeying fisheries regulations, and of course by dispatching their fish quickly and humanely using the ikijime method of brain destru
For more details and interactive learning tools that reveal the brain location for a wide range of fish species in Australia and around the world – please use the iki jime Fish Finder Search Bar at the top of this page. Enter your region (Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America, Europe, Asia or Africa), and state or province first, then select the water type (freshwater, estuary or offshore) and then select the appropriate fish group. Select the fish you want from the dropdown list and hit “Go
Alternatively, you can go to the “all fish” page and search our entire database from A to Z with fish thumbnails, or use the “Advanced Search” function to search for fish by taxonomic group. Governments or other institutions wanting to increase the number of species in the database for their region, should please contact us on [email protected] .