its the season and what i think is actually little tunny (called bonito here) are passing through. weve filled up our freezer, but i would like to know a way to preserve the fish similar to canned tuna so that it is well preserved and ready to eat without preparation. for now ive been putting the bones and head into the oven, scraped off the meat and put it in a jar then covered with oil. tastes fine but is very oily even after draining it well. anyone know any better ways??
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Preserving the fish..?
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You need to be very careful when preserving any non-acid food. The only truly safe way is to pressure can your fish. You need a pressure canner and a collection of mason jars. The result will be genuine canned tuna just like you get in the store. Preserve them will olive oil and you may just find either me or Spaghetti sitting on your doorstep with a knife and fork in hand! 
BTW What you call Mason jars in the US, we call Kilner jars. Although the glass-with-rubber-seal-jars we bought in Seattle have "Kerr" written on the side -- which I believe is named after the Seattle-based but British born & bred TV chef, known in the UK as the Galloping Gourmet. In the UK, he used to make the usual cream, sugar & fat confections beloved of TV chefs (before there were so many). I was really was surprised to see him on TV in America and he has started making very low fat heart-healthy food after suffering heart problems himself. I think he is now a man ahead of his time - even though the diet market is all about reducing/eliminating carbohydrates at the moment, no doubt things will change again.
The Kerr company was making jars to preserve food in long before Graham was born. Both the fatless and the carb-less diets are nothing but fads. No research nutritionist will have anything to do with them but they're all over the media because the reporters only read what each other write. Twaddle, all of it. Eat more vegetables of many different colors and as many different kinds of animal as you can get your hands on. Simple, really.