FISH MARKET
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Fischmarkt Hamburg-Altona GmbH, or Hamburg-Altona Fish
Market Ltd, has been one of Germany\'s most proficient fish
trading centres for over 65 years.
Fischmarkt Hamburg-Altona GmbH has been one of Germany's most proficient fish trading centres for over 65 years..
Steeped in great tradition and well equipped for a highly promising future, the pure fish auction and processing operation has developed into an efficient service organisation for 'everything to do with fish' .
The once industrial surroundings, given their character by the fishing harbour, have also developed dynamically in recent years.
As a result, the fish market in Hamburg-Altona is now in one of the fastest developing, most vibrant areas of the city, which at the same time is one of Hamburg's most picturesque districts.
tugs, with barges and container giants, the one-time charm of traditional and present day harbour and fishing life is united with contemporary businesses from the service sector.
Between fish market, auction hall and riverbank path, between the ferry terminal and the Övelgönne museum harbour, things are really happening! But there will, of course, always be things happening here for those involved with seafood:.
FISH MARKET
National Geographic Photo Gallery: Tokyo Fish Market Auction
Introduction: 'Tsukiji is a fish market in the sense that the Grand Canyon is a ditch or Caruso was a crooner.
Among the wholesale fish markets of the world, Tsukiji ranks at the top in every measurable category.
The market's clamorous labyrinth of stalls showcases all manner of seafoodfrom live sea eel to pickled octopusand reflects the well-ordered confusion of Japanese society.
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Home : Travel : New York : One Vignette If you get down to the South Street Seaport (just south of the Brooklyn Bridge) at 5:00 am, you'll find hundreds of New York City restaurateurs and fish mongers.
After a particular swordfish is chosen, there is a little wrestling action.
Maguro sushi? How would you like to work with iced fish in an open-air market when the temperature is 20 deg.
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Huge frozen fish carcasses are sold by lively auctioneers and their clipboard-toting assistants.
Once sold, the fish are marked with the name of the buyer.
Once the whole fish are sold to wholesalers, they go back to their stalls within the market to divide up the carcass into filets to sell to sushi markets.
The stalls within the market also sell every other kind of fresh--or live--seafood: You can buy handmade knives in the outer market, or, if you've developed an appetite for raw fish, grab some sushi in one of the many little restaurants: Getting there: Don't go on Sunday when the market is closed.
My family and I visited Tsukiji Fish Market--which is the largest in the world--when we visited Tokyo in the summer of 1999.
Watch out for the fast moving motorcycle porters in case you or your children are hit by a scooter and 1 ton of tuna fish.
Tsujiki Fish Market is closed on alternate Wednesdays as well as every Sunday.
If you want to try sushi inside the market itself, I recommend Daiwa Sushi.
The shop is divided into two neighborhing stalls in the rows of shops on the side of the market facing the National Cancer Center.
The fish is as fresh as it gets, if not as refined as the most expensive you can find in Tokyo.
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