Fish sauce job in Co To

The natural preference for Co To with a variety of fish and shrimp plus the sun and wind is the main condition for the development of fish sauce making, bringing Co To Fish Sauce products up to 3-star OCOP standard.
To learn about making Co To fish sauce, I went to Mr. Le Van Chin’s family, Truong Xuan village, Dong Tien commune, Co To district. Mr. Chin’s family has 25 years working as a fish sauce.

Mr. Chin’s family also has a long tradition of fishing. Initially, every day with boat cruises filled with fish. So I did not eat all, and added Co To many years ago, there was no electricity to the net, so almost every family with a fishing job would have a job of making fish sauce, because that would only be able to handle the amount of fish. Rice … a lot of redundancy after each trip out to sea. Mr. Le Van Chin has worked as a fish sauce for several decades. Mr. Chin said, this profession ranged from selecting fish, making the best fish sauce which is anchovy, to the stage of brewing and distilling according to a process. Although there is a general recipe, but the workers also need a certain experience, so the same ingredients, the same recipe tools for fish sauce are the same, but some people produce delicious fish sauce products, others do not. The fish sauce factories in Co To all use ceramic jars to make fish sauce, not cement tanks, to ensure that the fish sauce in the jars is kept intact, because the fish sauce has salt, and other materials are soaked for a long time. corrosive but not in jars. When finished a batch of fish sauce, jars are cleaned and sanitized, then dried to kill bacteria before preparing a new batch of fish sauce. To make fish sauce delicious, Mr. Chin is very careful from the import of ingredients. He contracts with fishing vessels, purchasing as soon as anchovies are imported into the port early in the morning. Being a fisherman, he chooses anchovies that are fresh, bright and not damaged. Because the fish sauce must be marinated every year to be used, Mr. Chin actively imports fish at the coldest time of the year from November of the previous year to March of the following year. This is the time when anchovies are abundant, fatty, of good quality. On the other hand, due to the cold climate, fish are also best preserved. Co To anchovies are rich in protein, preliminary processing, marinated with a certain percentage of salt in the jars, Mr. Chin carefully reverses every day in the sunlight, repeating every day from 12 to 15 months. At that time, the fish can gobble up enough to produce fish sauce products. Mr. Chin said, even keeping fish in jars requires a certain experience, it is best to choose the best sunny days, not to dry on bad weather days with rain, because it only needs a few drops of rain. also ruined the jar of fish sauce. Now that the age is high, Mr. Chin only works moderately, he produces about 700 liters of fish sauce annually. His family’s fish sauce products have a reputation among the islanders, and many tourists also order them. Co To has an abundant source of raw materials to produce fish sauce. In recent years, Co To district has stepped up vocational training for people, many families have learned to do fish sauce. Ms. Phan Thi Tuyet, Hai Tien village, Dong Tien commune, after attending a seafood processing class taught by staff of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs since 2015. Having a job, Tuyet and her husband arrested her. Right hand on making fish sauce. Initially, Ms. Tuyet only made a few jars to eat gradually, then introduced it to the neighbors. Seeing that everyone praised the deliciousness, so Tuyet boldly borrowed to buy 36 jars to make fish sauce and annually produced about 3,000 liters. Co To fish sauce makers are self-conscious about food safety and hygiene to make fish sauce, that is why Co To fish sauce is a prestigious OCOP product for many tourists from near and far. When coming to Co To, when returning home, many tourists do not forget to bring back a few liters to tens of liters of fish sauce to make gifts for their family members. Even when they got home, they still contacted the Co To fish sauce maker to send the goods to them.