Eating fish eggs

I know people eat salmon eggs but does anyone eat walleye, perch, or other fresh water fish eggs? How do you fix them?

Fry perch eggs with the fish, better than salmon eggs I think.

I've eaten whitefish fish eggs several times. Raw with just some pepper or hot sauce

Herring roe and shad roe are delicious.

Spoonbill eggs raw and salted are barely edible. I will have to be pretty hungry to eat them again

Coat 'em and fry 'em same as filets. Eat bluegill and perch eggs. Yum!

You can't beat perch eggs IMO! Fry them with the fish. I like my perch in the round.

Me thinks I read that gar roe is poisonous to people. Might want to check it out before ya try that kind.
Dennis

Gar , as far as I know , are toxic but that appears to be about it . I believe other species we encounter are fine.

They sell Ohio, farm raised Spoonbill (paddlefish) eggs for $60.00 for 50 grams.

https://www.bigfishfarms.com/new-products

I know a Kentucky, commercial fisherman, who makes a significant portion of his income, catching wild Spoonbill, for their eggs.

Can you legally sell the eggs from the paddlefish you catch in Kansas?

Keith

I think the roe of bowfin is also toxic.

i'll stick to the fillets.

I fished in Manitoba for Lake Trout in the fall and our guide said Native babies are fed their eggs raw. I tried them, before we released the fish, tastes like cantelope.

So far as i lnow its illegal to sell spoony eggs in any state. There are possessions limit too

False. Is sold retail, harvested mostly in LA. Poor man's caviar, but is still expensive. Chouepique (shoe-pick)

Most of them will give you a stellar case of bubble guts if you eat too many.

Always keep walleye, bass, or any lake fish eggs. Roll them in the meal and fry them. They are very good!

Don't do fish eggs, but I love shrimp eggs!

Tried perch eggs once, rolled in corn meal and fried, way to fishy for me. Tried caviar once never again. I love fish but the eggs I will leave to someone who enjoys them.

You can still harvest spoonbill for eggs in Illinois ,kentucky ,tTennessee its strange that Illinois has some of the most liberal commercial fishing laws in the midwest .you can still commercially fish catfish there to

The major source of American caviar is shovel nose sturgeon AKA hackleback .they rarely get over ten lbs

I get a lot of fresh trout eggs from processors where I pick up fresh scraps to make oil.
Rendered down , they make a fair lure base for some predator lures.

I don't like fried fish eggs. But raw, slightly salted, or dipped momentarily in boiling water are great (this applies to salmon eggs).

I don't know if you could prepare other eggs this way, but this is how I really like salmon eggs;
You need really ripe eggs (loose in the skein or fresh squeezed from the fish). Boil water in a sauce pan lightly salted and some black pepper, also add to the water finely diced onion. Dump the eggs in the boiling water, stir them for a few seconds; you want them to just turn from a liquid (inside the egg) to what would be a "soft boil", if you cook them just a few seconds too long they will turn rubbery or too firm.
When they are cooked just right, dump them into a strainer to remove the hot water and stop the cooking process.
Dump them on your plate and eat.

I doubt this is a traditional Native American way of preparing them, but that's how my Puyallup friends (the Satiacum clan) showed me how to cook them years ago. Anybody on here remember Bob?

Here in western Alaska pike eggs are eaten raw with a little salt. I eat all fish eggs myself, my favorite is burbot boiled, they look like sausages. Herring are good cooked or raw. Salmon are good salted, or cooked, or picked.No eggs are thrown away around here.

perch egg when they are small an tight, fried like fish

I have a friend that eats sucker eggs