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Is it safe to eat the fish scales of salmon?

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I'm sure it depends on how you cook it. I have cooked salmon a hundred times and I only ever bake it, covered with foil, at low temps. I eat the skin/scales every time as well. read more

So if you eat farmed salmon, I wouldn't eat the skin. If you eat wild salmon, the skin is very healthy and you can't even tell it has scales if you are baking it. That goes for atlantic, pink, coho, chinook, and sockeye. read more

A lot of people spurn salmon skin simply because they dislike the taste, but, unfortunately, there is also a non-subjective reason to avoid it. If salmon swim and feed on other animals in contaminated waters, the toxins will bioaccumulate in the fish’s skin and fat. read more

While the actual scales on salmon are not edible, the skin underneath is edible. If you plan on eating the skin of the salmon you catch or bring home from the supermarket, it will be extremely important to make sure that you scale it thoroughly so there are no traces of them left on the fish. read more

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