(Baonghean.vn) - In recent days, taking advantage of the sunny weather, people in the coastal areas of Hoang Mai town and Quynh Luu district have been busy drying fish. Large open spaces, spanning hectares, are used solely for drying fish. The entire countryside is filled with fish, emitting a strong, fragrant scent of the sea.
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| In the coastal villages of Hoang Mai and Quynh Luu towns these days, you can easily spot long stretches of... fish. This type of fish is called "ca troi," which is small and slender, often used to make fish sauce or dried. |
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| Fish can be placed on a tarp and dried directly in the sun, or steamed before being dried in the sun. |
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| Mackerel, mainly imported in large quantities from fishermen by seafood processing facilities, is then steamed, dried, or sun-dried before being exported throughout the country. These facilities have created jobs for many local people and seasonal workers. The photo shows workers cleaning the fish, arranging them on trays, and preparing them for steaming. |
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| The trays of fish, already steamed in the oven, are then removed from the oven and loaded onto trucks to be transported to a nearby fish drying area. |
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| The fish were brought to the shore still piping hot, emitting a fragrant steam. |
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| The workers drying the fish said: "On sunny days like these, there's a lot of work. We wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning to go to work. The wages are calculated by the hour, about 13-15 thousand dong per hour. At night, the wage is 20 thousand dong per hour. This is the off-season for farming, or in other coastal communes, the salt fields haven't started their season yet, so people are hired to dry fish." |
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| When the top surface starts to dry, you need to turn and flip the trays of fish to continue drying. "If it's sunny, the fish will be dry in just one day." |
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| Despite the hard work under the sun, the abundance of fish, the work to do, and the income bring joy to the people of the coastal village. |
Ho Lai
