A fishmonger at Seattle's Pike Place Market.

2 fishmongers look at swordfish and tuna loins. Notice the tuna coffins the loins rest on.

A fishmonger is someone who sells fish and seafood. In some countries modern supermarkets are replacing fishmongers who operate in shops or markets. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1760x1168, 638 KB) Summary A fishmonger at Seattles Pike Place Market, 2005-11. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1760x1168, 638 KB) Summary A fishmonger at Seattles Pike Place Market, 2005-11. ... Pike Place Market, looking west on Pike Street from First Avenue Inside the market Pike Place Market is a public market overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront in Seattle, Washington, United States. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 799 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (1365 × 1024 pixel, file size: 334 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) 2 fishmongers select swordfish and tuna. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 799 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (1365 × 1024 pixel, file size: 334 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) 2 fishmongers select swordfish and tuna. ... Binomial name Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) are large, highly migratory, predatory fish characterized by a long, flat bill in contrast to the smooth, round bill of the marlins. ... A shoal of skipjack tuna. ... A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded; covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ... Spaghetti with seafood (Spaghetti allo scoglio). ... Exterior of a typical British supermarket (a Tesco Extra) Exterior of typical North American supermarket (a Safeway) This Flagship Randalls store in Houston, Texas is an example of an upscale supermarket. ...

Many fishmongers as well as butchers are a dying breed. With the advent of many economical ways of distributing and packaging food, supermarkets many times opt for less expensive alternatives to these trained, highly skilled professionals. Fishmongers are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, merchandising and selling their product. Butcher shop in Valencia A butcher is someone who prepares various meats and other related goods for sale. ...

Fishmongers can be broken down into two categories: wholesale and retail. Among the most respected wholesale fishmongers is Mike Foley of M.F. Foley Fish Company, and Steve Connolly of Steve Connolly Seafood, both located in Massachusetts. A trademark for both purveyors is the branding of their products rather then generic labeling. Examples of retail stores run by fishmongers in the United States are Citarella's in New York City, Legal Seafood in Boston, Massachusetts and Gulf Shrimp(both wholesale and retail) in Plantsville, Connecticut. Wholesaling consists of the sale of goods/merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services. ... Drawing of a self-service store. ... Mike Foley (b. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, Athens of America, The Hub (of the Universe)1 Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area    - City  89. ... Plantsville is a village in the incorporated town of Southington, Hartford County, Connecticut. ...

Fishmongers in culture

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, some contend, the word fishmonger was a euphemism for a pimp [1][2]. It is not known if the pejorative use of fish to refer to penis was also implied by this possible usage. It seems more likely that "fish" would refer here not to the male genitalia, but to the female. Shakespeare redirects here. ... Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and is one of his best-known and most-quoted plays. ... A euphemism is an expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive, disturbing, or troubling to the listener than the word or phrase it replaces, or in the case of doublespeak to make it less troublesome for the speaker. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ...

In the Asterix series, the village fishmonger is called Unhygienix

In the film the beach, the Island's chef, played by Daniel Caltagirone, has only fish as a source of meat, and is named Unhygienix in refference to the Asterix character.

Famous fishmongers

• Katie Lee Joel, host of Top Chef
• Lydia Morales, contestant on Survivor: Guatemala

External Links Katie Lee Joel (born 1981 in Huntington, West Virginia) is a celebrity and television personality. ... Top Chef is an American reality competition show airing on the Bravo cable television network in which chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges. ... Lydia Morales (born January 19, 1963) is a contestant on the current season of the hit reality TV series, Survivor:Guatemala. ...

• Citarella's
• Legal Seafood
• Steve Connolly Seafood
• Foley Fish