Up to my ears in Herring

A shipment of 40 kilos of fresh Herring arrived at the Lab today. 

We spent ALL morning beheading and gutting the fish.
Warning- the following photos are pretty gruesome.

One of four 'cleaning' stations.

We were up to our ears in fish guts; our nice clean whites had turned a bloody shade of red, and the place reeked of fish. To make light of the rather unpleasant situation we amped up the humor. There was lots of joking around and lots of laughter. Probably the funniest thing that happened was when one of Sarah's fish flew off her cutting board and down the stairs, leaving a nasty skid mark.

 

After all the fish were cleaned, I was put in charge of mixing all of the heads and guts with salt and put them in containers to ferment into fish sauce.

Trying so hard not to vomit.

A look of disgust!

 After the work was done, we deep cleaned the entire boat, and then rewarded ourselves with delicious homemade cake!