Homeland caviar

About Sakhalin say that everything is eaten caviar Spoon of buckets. For breakfast, lunch and dinner. This is actually a myth and tale: red caviar is not included in the daily diet of the islanders. They, like us, people from the mainland to eat it on holidays and mood. The fact is that the eggs are not so readily available as we fantasize.

But anyone who departs from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, certainly pulls with several kilograms of relatives and friends. It's true.



1 Fish companies in Sakhalin much, a few dozen. There are big players in the market, driven by products in the regions of Russia, and even sold abroad, there are those who work in the area. There smugglers itself.


2 I went to a medium-sized plant, which employs about fifty people.


3 Work is seasonal, peaking in the summer, when there is salmon season. Then dozens of fishing schooners go to sea, and dozens of aunts in caps separated the wheat from the plёvel, that is, from the fish spawn.


4 Can you imagine that somewhere in the eggs of fish discarded in the trash? But not in Russia, this is our national dish, which is known to the whole world. By the way, some fools, on the contrary, fish discarded, leaving only the eggs. As a rule, the poachers, fish requires further processing and storage, and they have neither the time nor the inclination.


5 The first stage - just a department. The belly is cut up with a knife, gently pull out raw eggs and put in buckets.


6 After that, the fish goes into a shop, raw - in another.


7 That something like that. Sorry, maybe not very appetizing process, but it is a fact of life. Vegetarians somehow continue to eat fish, but it is a pity the little animals.


8 Some days the fish comes to the plant so much that she simply stacked on the floor.


9 Sirec collected, sifted in a colander.


10 Then he was several times sifted through a sieve.


11 I do not remember, the essence of the entire process, so I can shamelessly lie and make mistakes.


12 is almost ready to spawn. Now she needs to settle. Like, even salted eggs.


13 And then packed in cans. It is best to buy those plastic, there are no instances need preservatives, but this product is not stored for a long time. The latest and the best, of course, in the Far East. While Russia will reach the center ... in cans no eggs, and tin.


14 In addition to eggs, in this factory and make all your favorite dried fish snacks. Here the process is much easier. Catch - removed the insides.


15 hung out to dry.


16 All for you, fans of beer with dried fish. Knocking on the table - not perestuchat!


17 From this salmon, perhaps, to make sushi. What rolls on Sakhalin - it is something! Nothing to do with the fact that here in Moscow.


18 And maybe make dried salmon slices. Also delicious.


19 More factory somehow making dumplings. And beef.


20 Such is the non-core asset.


21 Herring, plaice, salmon and mackerel. Pink salmon, whale, coho, sockeye, chinook. Dried, fresh, any fish.


22 A girl has to look at the fish can not.


23 Well, after this story will spawn there? :)


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