seafood processing

Marine product preparation

Seafood processing is the preparation of fish, shellfish, and other marine life for sale or consumption.

This includes cleaning, filleting, freezing, canning, smoking, and packaging.

The term covers both industrial-scale operations and smaller facilities: She works at a seafood processing plant in Alaska.

Processing may happen on factory ships at sea or at shore-based facilities.

Related

crab · freezing · cold storage · canning · deboning · vacuum sealing · fish meal · food safety · quality control · allergen labeling · pickling · scale · smoking · conveyor belts · fillet knife · cold chain · fisheries · sustainable fisheries

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stage in supply chain

seafood processingfishing

Catching aquatic creatures

commercial fishing · aquaculture · fish farming · wild catch · trawling

food industry sector

seafood processingmeat processing

Preparing animal flesh commercially

game processing

transformation state

seafood processingwhole fish

Unbutchered aquatic creature

raw seafood

Family

process, seafood, processing

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