Making fish sauce -- Results

 Thank you guys for contributing your knowledge and experience of fish sauce making.  I now have much more confidence to give it a try (if I can catch any herrings this year) knowing that I would not stink up or blow up my house with my new experiment! 

I recently learned from speaking with a fish sauce guru that, after the first straining, you can pour a 20-percent salt brine through the leftover mash several times and harvest more fish sauce without any noticeable reduction in flavor. I've been doing it. It works!