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Herrings, Fresh, Choosing

Choose fresh herrings which are plump in shape, bright and silvery in look, and with their scales uninjured. When they are bloodshot about the eyes, they have been dead some time. When many of the scales have come off, they have been crushed together in large heaps, either in the fishing-boats or in baskets.