To Konoshiro the Day

Didn't i write in last post how nice it is to be here in Meinohama Fishing Port 

and how well we are looked after?

Well, here comes the flip side: Not seldom does my telephone brippbripps me at 1900 h.

"yapu-chan, yapu-chan, jikan aru? 

Ima takkusan sakana arimasu!!"

Other words....Can you please come and help us, we have a lottttt of fish...

Of course!

So, i hoist myself into my fisherman's outfit and

go and help our friends on Sumie Maru 

to clear " a mountain" of 

konoshiro.

  Meinohama Fishing Port at night. 

Sumie Maru fishes for konoshiro only in winter time, 

tonite it's a good nite: 

No rain Nor snow...Just cold.

Despite the fact this night Marinoa's Ferris Wheel isn't lit-up,
 it's still romantic, don't you think so?

From L to R: Kunitoshi, Miyoko, yours, Etsuko and Eiji.

Non-stop for a few hours.

Today it's not that much, just 4 hours work 

and about 650kg of konoshiro.

My record "sit-in" was from 8 PM till 5 AM!

So plenty of time for contemplating the day.

After clearing the fish from the net (usually 1-by-1), 

they end up in boxes of 4kg and are brought by small

K-truck to the main fish-market in Hakata.

Left to do: tidy up the boat,  the net 

and clean our selves as it is a messy and smelly fish.

This is what konoshiro looks like, 

aka kohada or gizzard shad.

A great website: What to Do and How to Eat konoshiro

is  HERE.

Salute.