1. Stockfish is cured in a process called fermentation , where cold-adapted bacteria let the fish mature , similar to the maturing process of cheese .
2. Stockfish is cured in a process called fermentation where cold-adapted bacteria matures the fish , similar to the maturing process of cheese .

Select your answer from the options. Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
Choose your answer from: I. no; II. yes;...I think the answer is
II.