Abstract: A method and apparatus for the salting and drying of cleaned and prepared fish, or for the drying of salted fish, by means of a fluidized bed of salt particles suspended within heated and dried air. Split fish, fish fillets, shaped portions of minced fish or whole fish are placed in apertured enclosures which are suspended within a chamber in which a fluidized salt bed has been established, and are conveyed through the fluidized salt bed across the interior of the chamber and exposed to the fluidized salt bed until the desired degree of drying and salting of the fish has been achieved.