fishmonger
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thumb|A fishmonger in Pike Place Market on the waterfront of [[Seattle.]] A fishmonger (historically fishwife for female practitioners) is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers, and are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, merchandising and selling their product. In some countries, modern supermarkets are replacing fishmongers who operate in shops or fish markets.
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thumb|A fishmonger in Pike Place Market on the waterfront of [[Seattle.]] A fishmonger (historically fishwife for female practitioners) is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers, and are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, merchandising and selling their product. In some countries, modern supermarkets are replacing fishmongers who operate in shops or fish markets.
==Worshipful Company of Fishmongers== thumb|left|A 16th-century fishmongers stall. Bartolomeo Passarotti.