Industry Description
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) canning seafood (including soup); (2) smoking, salting, and drying seafood; (3) eviscerating fresh fish by removing heads, fins, scales, bones, and entrails; (4) shucking and packing fresh shellfish; (5) processing marine fats and oils; and (6) freezing seafood. Establishments known as "floating factory ships" that are engaged in the gathering and processing of seafood into canned seafood products are included in this industry.
Keywords
Cannery, seafood
Canning, fish, crustacea, and mollusks
Chowders, seafood, manufacturing
Cod liver oil extraction, crude, processing
Curing fish and seafood
Dinners, frozen seafood, manufacturing
Drying fish and seafood
Fish and marine animal oils processing
Fish egg bait canning
Fish freezing (e.g., blocks, fillets, ready-to-serve products)
Fish manufacturing
Fish meal processing
Fish, curing, drying, pickling, salting, and smoking
Floating factory ships, seafood processing
Freezing fish (e.g., blocks, fillets, ready-to-serve products)
Picking crab meat
Seafood and seafood products canning
Seafood and seafood products curing
Seafood and seafood products manufacturing
Seafood dinners, frozen, manufacturing
Seaweed processing (e.g., dulse)
Shellfish and shellfish products canning
Shellfish and shellfish products manufacturing
Shellfish curing
Shucking and packing fresh shellfish
Soups, seafood, manufacturing
Surimi manufacturing
