Donated Marlin

This OKK food project is not just about a vegetable garden. It’s about our community coming together to provide food for its community members. So let me tell you about what just happened. 

Looking down on the marlin laying on a long table. 

This week a large freshly caught fish, a marlin, was donated to the Hub by John Masters. John is the one who caught it. Wow!!! That jumbo fish fish dressed out about 140 lbs of meat. What a bonanza for the people of Ka’u. It is going to make a heck of a lot of meals. 

Volunteers cleaned and dressed out this fish. The waste was given to the OKK garden project for making fish emulsion fertilizer. I will be spending tomorrow processing the waste , and I’m thinking that I might need to buy a few more 5 gallon buckets to hold the waste. This fish was really huge and will fill up my current buckets pretty quickly. 

So this event was a win-win situation for everyone, except the marlin of course. And on top of it, it’s a no-waste endeavor. Zero waste to the dump. Every scrap gets used.