[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by Schousse

When I lived on Cape Cod we'd go out in the spring at night during the herring run and catch us some herring for the roe. Lightly floured and panfried ...... doesn't get much better than that!!

Some needs to have pretty small hands to remove those shells?

[karibear]

Originally Posted by Schousse

When I lived on Cape Cod we'd go out in the spring at night during the herring run and catch us some herring for the roe. Lightly floured and panfried ...... doesn't get much better than that!!

OMG! One of the first jobs I had in AK was hand-picking herring roe bound for the Japanese market. Fresh herring was fine fried, salted, pickled, etc, and fresh roe was good fried. BUT - the way we picked the roe was to let the fish half rot, then the roe sacs would semi-solidify, and when the fish was squeezed, the entire sac would pop out whole. At worst, the fish rotted in the holds of the boats that had caught them and the resulting slurry was pumped out into tubs - picking roe from that was very much like picking peas out of pea soup. Believe me, there's nothing on earth that smells like ton after ton of rotting herring! Everything the cook made tasted like rotten fish. For 5 weeks we lived, ate, and worked on 3 smallish barges in the middle of a bay, so there was no way to get away from it. When we finally got back to town, I had to throw away every stitch of clothing I'd taken, there was no way to get the smell out.

[colleeng47]

Originally Posted by karibear

OMG! One of the first jobs I had in AK was hand-picking herring roe bound for the Japanese market. Fresh herring was fine fried, salted, pickled, etc, and fresh roe was good fried. BUT - the way we picked the roe was to let the fish half rot, then the roe sacs would semi-solidify, and when the fish was squeezed, the entire sac would pop out whole. At worst, the fish rotted in the holds of the boats that had caught them and the resulting slurry was pumped out into tubs - picking roe from that was very much like picking peas out of pea soup. Believe me, there's nothing on earth that smells like ton after ton of rotting herring! Everything the cook made tasted like rotten fish. For 5 weeks we lived, ate, and worked on 3 smallish barges in the middle of a bay, so there was no way to get away from it. When we finally got back to town, I had to throw away every stitch of clothing I'd taken, there was no way to get the smell out.

And I thought working at fast food was hard!!

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by karibear

OMG! One of the first jobs I had in AK was hand-picking herring roe bound for the Japanese market. Fresh herring was fine fried, salted, pickled, etc, and fresh roe was good fried. BUT - the way we picked the roe was to let the fish half rot, then the roe sacs would semi-solidify, and when the fish was squeezed, the entire sac would pop out whole. At worst, the fish rotted in the holds of the boats that had caught them and the resulting slurry was pumped out into tubs - picking roe from that was very much like picking peas out of pea soup. Believe me, there's nothing on earth that smells like ton after ton of rotting herring! Everything the cook made tasted like rotten fish. For 5 weeks we lived, ate, and worked on 3 smallish barges in the middle of a bay, so there was no way to get away from it. When we finally got back to town, I had to throw away every stitch of clothing I'd taken, there was no way to get the smell out.

dead fish!...
http://bestsmileys.com/puking/2.gif (broken link).......and I though the smell from a paper mill was bad...http://bestsmileys.com/puking/2.gif (broken link)..............http://bestsmileys.com/lol/5.gif (broken link)

[Goodpasture]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

dead fish!...

Frankly, I prefer them that way....otherwise they wiggle off the fork........

[karibear]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

dead fish!...
http://bestsmileys.com/puking/2.gif (broken link).......and I though the smell from a paper mill was bad...http://bestsmileys.com/puking/2.gif (broken link)..............http://bestsmileys.com/lol/5.gif (broken link)

Eventually you get used to it. Or at least your sense of smell takes enough of a break so you can eat regular food and it tastes like what it's supposed to. And herring, while it can smell bad, at least isn't toxic. Shrimp in the same condition can kill with the gases they give off. One of the divers trying to empty and clean a hold on a shrimper ended up being medevaced to Anchorage and spent some time in intensive care. It's a disaster in more ways than one when a boat's refrigeration cuts out.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

Frankly, I prefer them that way....otherwise they wiggle off the fork........

I was waiting for something like that.

OK. i'll try again

Decomposing aquatic vertebrates carcasses

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by karibear

Eventually you get used to it. Or at least your sense of smell takes enough of a break so you can eat regular food and it tastes like what it's supposed to. And herring, while it can smell bad, at least isn't toxic. Shrimp in the same condition can kill with the gases they give off. One of the divers trying to empty and clean a hold on a shrimper ended up being medevaced to Anchorage and spent some time in intensive care. It's a disaster in more ways than one when a boat's refrigeration cuts out.

I worked on a shrimp boat out of San Diego back in the "70's" for awhile.