DESCRIZIONE
The invention relates to a device (10), designed and arranged for processing beheaded fish (11), namely for cutting the fish fillets, which are preferably already processed by a scissors blade unit and a dagger blade aggregate, from the flank bones comprising a transport device (12) Transporting the fish (11) in the transport direction T tail ahead, wherein the transport device (12) has an endlessly circulating transport conveyor (13) with at least one transport saddle (14) for receiving and fixing a fish (11), a flank knife assembly (15) the flank blade unit (15) has two flank blade units (16, 17) which lie opposite one another on both sides of the transport conveyor (13) in the region of a transport saddle guide (18), and each flank blade unit (16, 17) has a rotary driven circular blade (19, 20) and an abutment arrangement (21, 22) for the circular blade (19, 20) t, wherein the circular blade (19, 20) for forming a cutting gap S spaced from the abutment arrangement (21, 22) is arranged, and at least one control device for moving the flank blade units (16, 17) relative to the transport conveyor (13) from a waiting position in one Working position and back, which is characterized in that the counter-abutment arrangements (21, 22) are formed and set controllable during the machining process for changing the size of the cutting gap S. The invention further relates to a filleting apparatus with such a device (10) and a corresponding method. [Image Omitted]