Herring Roe Sun-Drying Started
The season has begun again for the herring roe flavor enhancing process of sun-drying in Rumoi City, Japan’s top herring roe producer.
On July 6, Hokkaido’s largest herring roe provider Ihara & Co., Ltd. (Rumoi City) prepared 700 kg of herring roe caught in Rumoi Subprefecture this summer and begun sun-drying the roe under a cloudless sky.
Workers carefully placed herring roe clusters on racks one-by-one, flipping them and removing impurities. After a week of sun-drying, the pale yellow herring roe clusters will shrink by about one quarter of their original size and take on a tortoiseshell colour.
The high-end product, dried herring roe, will be shipped mainly to the Kanto region from around November and is usually traded for about 80,000 yen per kilo every year.
Location
Ihara Suisan
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