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Old 01-23-2013, 02:39 PM
 
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I worked in one all day (taking otolith samples for the hatchery) while I had food poisoning. At this particular plant (Silver Bay) I had to obtain my samples from severed fish heads instead of whole fish. I had to go outside and puke off the dock about every 45 minutes.
Just makes me want to run out and buy some seafood from that plant...

It's just one of those things you really don't want to know... kinda like my visit to a chicken processing plant... it was like 3 or 4 years before I would even eat chicken again...
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Old 01-23-2013, 07:29 PM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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Just makes me want to run out and buy some seafood from that plant...
Not sure what that has to do with the fish they process, which as far as I know is just fine.

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It's just one of those things you really don't want to know... kinda like my visit to a chicken processing plant... it was like 3 or 4 years before I would even eat chicken again...
Meh, I'd eat salmon for lunch while I was working in the canneries, or at the hatchery. Doesn't bother me a bit. Was a little odd having to handle severed fish heads, but still not that big a deal on a normal day. It's just the way their cannery was set up - the fish went straight to the processing line and there wasn't anywhere else for me to access them except after they were headed. What was kind of gross was that their grinder was constantly on the fritz and made quite a mess. Oh, and there was the time that a fish head started moving in my hand... But that wasn't any worse than over at Peter Pan, where if they tried to offload a tender too fast fish would start falling out of the chute onto the floor and often hitting you in the process. Then you'd wind up wading around in ankle-deep fishy water, with jellyfish floating around in it, trying to put their fish back in the chute for them. Man, that was a crazy job.
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Old 01-24-2013, 12:24 PM
 
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tigre79 - It was meant as a comment about "every 45 minutes - puking" ... kinda along the lines of making it outside every time... and it just makes you wonder how many other people in food processing plants "working sick"...

And I can assure you - a fish processing plant smells NOTHING like a chicken processing plant... it has to do with the burning the (remainder) feathers off part and chicken poop... the combination is stomach churning to put it mildly... If you have ever driven by a chicken farm, you know one part of the smell, it's the combining with the other that makes simple awful. I never wish to go back.
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Old 01-24-2013, 02:18 PM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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tigre79 - It was meant as a comment about "every 45 minutes - puking" ... kinda along the lines of making it outside every time... and it just makes you wonder how many other people in food processing plants "working sick"...

And I can assure you - a fish processing plant smells NOTHING like a chicken processing plant... it has to do with the burning the (remainder) feathers off part and chicken poop... the combination is stomach churning to put it mildly... If you have ever driven by a chicken farm, you know one part of the smell, it's the combining with the other that makes simple awful. I never wish to go back.
Have you ever smelled the boiling of the heads and guts before?
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Old 01-24-2013, 10:14 PM
 
Location: Dangling from a mooses antlers
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Have you ever smelled the boiling of the heads and guts before?
No sure I'd want to either.

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Old 01-25-2013, 11:14 AM
 
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Spent the summer working in King Salmon... Naknek has two or three processing plants, one is 40ft off the road, I never remember any particularly strong odor coming from them. But I'm sure it's not pleasant, but a chicken plant offends you when you start down the road it's on.

Most food processing/packaging plants have more going on behind closed doors then we want to know about for the most part.
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Old 01-25-2013, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Seattle
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Most food processing/packaging plants have more going on behind closed doors then we want to know about for the most part.
What do they have going on behind closed doors?
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Old 01-25-2013, 11:50 AM
 
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What do they have going on behind closed doors?
Simply put, the methods the animals are slaughtered and processed... It's not the same as shooting an animal and field dressing it... The chickens heads are "pulled" off while hanging upside down.

I'm not a animal activist by any means for "food" animals but the whole mass production theme of the way it's done - plus the smells - was a bit like "I think this is one thing I really didn't want to know"...

People are pretty disconnected from the meat under cellophane - and it's probably not a bad thing. I've hunted and it didn't bother me - this did.
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Old 01-26-2013, 09:08 PM
 
Location: Puna, Hawaii
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Silver Bay in Sitka makes a special effort to bring in as diversified mix as possible.

(translation: if there was a "Women of Seafood Processing Plants" swimsuit calendar, it would be shot there)
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Old 01-28-2013, 08:11 PM
 
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First of all, lose the drinking problem.

Why in the hell do you want to work in fish processing? Were you drunk when you made this post?

Look up Trident on the Internet and apply with them. They'll shove you in a bunkhouse with a bunch of other idiots where your Internet connection will suck, but they'll feed you okay and you might make some decent friends. Then again, you might fall off the dock when you're drunk and end up as crab bait.
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