A fish factory, also called a fish plant, fish processing facility, is a facility where
fish processing is performed. Fish factories range in the size and range of species of fish they process. Some species of fish, such as
mackerel
Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae. They are found in both temperate and tropical seas, mostly living along the coast or offshore in the oceanic environment.
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and
herring
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.
Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, i ...
, and can be caught at sea by large pelagic
trawlers and offloaded to the factory within a few days of being caught. Or the fish can be caught by freezer trawlers that freeze the fish before providing it to factories, or by
factory ships which can do the processing themselves on board. Some fish factories have
fishing vessels catching fish for them at a given times of the year. This is to do with quotas and seasons conflicting how much and when the fish can be landed.
Gallery
Image:Factoría de salazones 001.jpg, Remains of an ancient garum fish factory at Baelo Claudia, in Spain. This Spanish garum was exported to Ancient Rome.
Image:Fiskvinnslukonur-1910-1920-kirkjusandur.jpg, Women working with stock fish in a fish factory in Kirkjusandur, Reykjavík, Iceland, around 1910–1920
Image:Halteyri04.jpg, Women working in a modern fish factory in Halteyri, Iceland
Image:Barge.png, Floating fish processor Atlantis
See also
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Cannery Row
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Factory ship
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Fish company
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Gulf of Georgia Cannery
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List of harvested aquatic animals by weight
References
* Garrity-Blake, Barbara J (1994
''The Fish Factory: Work and Meaning for Black and White Fishermen of the American Menhaden Industry''University of Tennessee Press.
* http://p2pays.org/ref/24/23296/f_chp2.pdf
* https://web.archive.org/web/20160409141334/http://www.radialnutrition.com/50-fish-oil-facts/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20120328080524/http://www.mdi-nepal.org/case4.html
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110728003506/http://dare.co.in/opportunities/agriculture-rural/fresh-water-fish-farming.htm
External links
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