A fish factory, also called a fish plant, fish processing facility, is a facility where

fish processing The term fish processing refers to the processes associated with fish and fish products between the time fish are caught or harvested, and the time the final product is delivered to the customer. Although the term refers specifically to fish, in ...

is performed. Fish factories range in the size and range of species of fish they process. Some species of fish, such as

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and

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, and can be caught at sea by large pelagic

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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 ship A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales. Modern factory ships are automated and enlarged versions of the earlier wh ...

s which can do the processing themselves on board. Some fish factories have

fishing vessel A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish in the sea, or on a lake or river. Many different kinds of vessels are used in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing. The total number of fishing vessels in the world in 2016 was es ...

s 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

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fish factory at

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, in

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. This Spanish garum was exported to

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. Image:Fiskvinnslukonur-1910-1920-kirkjusandur.jpg, Women working with

stock fish Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which are called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore. The drying of food is the world's oldest known preservation method, and dried fish has a storage lif ...

in a fish factory in Kirkjusandur,

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, around 1910–1920 Image:Halteyri04.jpg, Women working in a modern fish factory in Halteyri,

Image:Barge.png, Floating fish processor Atlantis

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

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