Apparatus for extracting fish roe

摘要

An apparatus for extracting fish roe comprises a tail holder for holding a tail portion of a fish and a head holder for holding a head portion of the fish. There is a first blade and a second blade and a mechanism for moving the blades towards the fish to pierce the fish near the back thereof and between the first and second holders. There is a mechanism for separating the first blade and the tail holder from the second blade and the head holder generally in the direction of the backbone of the fish to tear the head portion from the tail portion and expose roe within the fish. A method for exposing roe in fish comprises piercing the fish between the back and backbone with two adjacent blades and moving the blades away from each other generally parallel to the backbone of the fish to tear the fish into two portions and expose the roe.