soused
This is a salted herring.
kipper
A whole salted and smoked herring is called a Bloater
Salted herring is known as maatjes in Dutch and matjes in German and Swedish. In addition to pickling vinegar, it's made with cider, wine, tea, sweeteners, and various herbs.
bloater
There are many types of herring flavors, if you can, ask a sweden person to tell you, put just in case, there are pickled, salted, if you want more, look on google and type in Herring flavors and press go glad to help! :)
A bloater is a salted and lightly smoked herring or mackerel, or a freshwater fish native to the Great Lakes, Latin name Coregonus hoyi.
Maybe the system that is used to take salt out of salted Herring would work. Soak it in milk over night.
The term "red herring" actually originates from the practice of using a strong-smelling smoked herring to distract hunting dogs from the scent they were supposed to follow. There seems to be a confusion in the question; there is no common term "blue herring" in this context.
H. Ritchie Chipman has written: 'Methods of handling fish' -- subject(s): Fishery products, Salted fish, Herring, Preservation
New England colonists depended on salted cod and smoked herring for food and as trade items. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, cured fish products made major contributions to the economies of New England and eastern Canada.