Fresh fish rapidly deteriorates unless some way can be found to preserve it. Drying is a method of food preservation that works by removing water from the food, which inhibits the growth of microorgan
Fish barn with fish drying in the sun – Van Gogh 1882
A fish flake, such as this one in Norway, is a rack used for drying cod.
Eja kika, a smoked and sun-dried fish in Yorubaland
Daing, tuyô, buwad, or bilad are dried fish from the Philippines. Fish prepared as daing are usually split open, gutted, salted liberally, and then sun and air-dried. There are also "boneless" version
Dried fish
…Bugeo refers to dried Alaska pollock. Daing (also known as bulad or tuyô) refers to sun-dried fish in the Philippines. Almost any kind of fish is used, but the most common variant uses rabbitfish…
Daing na bangus
Daing being dried
Various types of daing sold at a store in Pangasinan