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Show wrm Im 1 i Scene '76 CLASSIFIEDS FEATURES PAUL HARVEY WEEKS TV GUIDE -- THURSDAY, JAN. -- 22. 1976 -- -- SUPPLEMENT TO THE NEWS EXAMINER. PRESTON CITIZEN, CACHE CITIZEN. GRACE CITIZEN AND THE LEADER GARLAND TIMES AND IT'S IN SODA SPRINGS The Nation's Caviar Plant Caviar is a common word for an uncommon delicacy, but lew people realize that there is only one caviar plant in the United States and it is located in Soda Springs, Idaho. And that came about because California has a law that prohibits the processing of herring in the state and because the man who processes the caviar is from Soda Springs. . AS WAS recently reported inthe Idaho State Journal: Pacific Caviar is operated by Clint Stephens, who was raised in this area. When the business was being created, the Stephens family decided to make Soda Springs the head office five years ago because they already owned land here and they liked the area. Because of this, truckloads herring are brought from the coast on a regular basis from January through June. As the herring schools move up the coast, the fish will be shipped from Oregon, Washington and Canada. of PACIFIC CAVIAR is lo-- . cated on Highway 34N, just beyond the Monsanto plant.' Atone time the site was used by a ready mix concrete . . . Si plant According to Kelly Stephens, son of the owner who works at the plant about 100 persons will be employed by the plant during a six months operating period, of which 90 will be women. The company started stripping 'the female herring of the eggs which is the caviar earlier this month and Monday the grading grew started to work, quality grading the eggs before they are shipped to Japan. Last year the local plant exported 1500 tons of haring caviar to the Nazaki Company in Tokyo, Japan. Nazaki markets under the name f of Geisha Products United States. . Last week two officials of the Company from Tokyo, Japan, inspected the plant the product and ' THEY WERE Shigeru . Masuko and Sunao Maekawa In the processing of the fish, only the eggs areused . by Pacific Caviar. The carcasses of the female fish and the male fish are sold to CUI, a rendering firm in Salt Lake City. Kelly Stephens said that there is nothing left to a spawning female herring after the eggs are removed, except the head, backbone, skin and fins. The fish are brought into the plant in large wooden boxes which are dumped into a conveyor system that feeds stone 30 bins where the'' workers check each fish. The males are immediately discarded and the females are torn open and the eggs strip-- ' ped out. THE EMPLOYEES work on a per piece basis, being Stephens is married with three boys and two girls. He is proud of the fact that his family has had the oily back-to-ba- THE TIN SECTIONS OF ESCS TMEH FROM E FEMALE paid far the pounds of eggs they process. According to company officials, skilled waiters in the caviar business can make up to (7 an hour, "an amount which us- -' The season runs from about Jan. 1 through June. Pacific Caviar are also considering running herring caviar in Nova Scotia and Vancouver, BC. ually settles a squemip stomach." The eggs are then cleaned, soaked in a 20 percent salt solution and then soaked in 100 percent salt solution. After they are graded they are packed for shipping to Japan. HERRING for the Soda Springs plant are supplied by contract fishermen aloig the Pacific coast. Fish are obtained through offices in Sausalito and Monterey, Calif., Bellingham and Blain, Wash., and from fish J5 ck studentbody presidents at Soda Springs High School. HEMMING ermen in Canada. The plant in Soda can process between 2000 and 4000 tons of herring. In August Pacific Caviar will concentrate on the salmon egg business in the Michigan area. Through contract cleaning stations along the streams and lakes in Michigan, salmon Current president of the Soda Springs studentbody is Steven Stephens. Last year's president was older brother Kurt Stephens. The proud father admits he is currently CLINT STEPHENS, working on his daughter to get her interested in politics at the high school. Stephens has two sons who have been graduated and are now helping him in the caviar business. The plant will open about Jan. 8. Persons desiring to be caught up in the unlikely calling of making caviar in the wide-ope- n spaces of Soda Springs can still apply for work. OWNER OF PACIFIC CAVIAR fish caught by the sports fishermen are cleaned and the eggs are removed. These are processed by Pacific Caviar and sold for bait and the company is a major supplier to companies who sell the two ounce bottles of salmon eggs. COMPETITORS for Pacific Caviar are located in Mexico, Korea and Canada. Clint Stephens has been in the fish business for more than 20 years, and has been operating in the Soda Springs plant for four years. As was also reported in the Idaho State Journal: IW j SUNAO MAEIAWA AND SHIGERU THE LARGE CRATES OF HERRING ARE DUMPED INTO THE HOPPER FOR PROCESSING HOSIERS REMOVE THE EGGS FROM THE i S FEMALE FISH CAVIAR, INSPECT THE HERRING MASUR0, FISH EGGS R0IH OF T0IT0, AND AEllT STEPHENS. SON OF THE OWNER OF PACIFIC |