How to keep the freshness

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Introduction

Keeping the freshness is the most important to make all kinds of Dried Small Fish. Small (infant) fish is easy to lose its freshness and if once the raw material loses its freshness, it is never usable as the raw material.

1. Preparing iced water
Iced water must be prepared before the start of fishing. A fishing boat must have a big tank and large quantities of minced ices when fishers sail out fishing. When they arrive at a fishing ground, they must make iced water before dropping a catching net to the sea.

This iced water is made from the same amount of ices and water. If the ices are floating on the water, you must put more ices into the iced water. The amalgam made from ices and water is needed.

Fishers must put the fish into the prepared iced water as soon as possible.

2. The trouble often happened.
Most fishers wouldn't like taking ice with them to the fishing ground because it takes some costs to buy ices. Fishers make various kinds of excuses. However, ice is absolutely needed even if fishers say like this, "you can see the fishing ground the very front from the sea shore. It takes only a few minutes from the fishing ground to the sea shore. The raw material never loses its freshness even if we don't use the iced water." There are many problems in their thought.

• a) Small (infant) fish is easy to lose its freshness within only a few minutes.
• b) The factory making dried small fish is generally busy. Therefore, sometimes it takes several minutes to start processing after the raw material arrived. Especially, in case of good catching, the raw materials will continuously arrive at the factory and it takes more times.
• c) Ices are not only beneficial to keep the freshness but also beneficial to tighten the protein of the fish body. It is also important to make Dried Small Fish.

No matter how fishers insist that ices are unnecessary, ices are absolutely necessary to keep the freshness.