Eddie Salting The Herring

Bare handed.  Covered with stinging wet salt and herring guts in the warm summer heat.

It’s a tough job but hey, Eddie’s a tough guy.

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Salting Vats Of Herring

The machine adds just the right mix of herring and salt to coat each fish as a preservative.

Salting Vats Of Herring, originally uploaded by captjoe06.