Frozen tuna awaiting processing

Skinning cooked tuna before canning. Columbia River Packing Association.

Inside a tuna canning plant. Women are shown busily at work preparing tuna for canning.

Putting salt into cans of tuna fish. Columbia River Packing Association.

Canning tuna at the Columbia River Packing Association.

Cases of tuna fish at Astoria, Oregon.

Unloading frozen tuna from truck

Unloading frozen tuna from truck

Unloading frozen tuna from truck

Unloading frozen tuna from truck

Weighing frozen tuna

Unloading frozen tuna

Stacking frozen tuna on pallets

Stacking canned tuna

Filling cans with tuna

Unloading frozen tuna

Weighing frozen tuna

Stacking tuna in cold storage room

Filling cans with tuna

Adding salt to canned tuna

Sorting tuna

Filling cans with tuna

Spot checking cans of tuna at Bumblebee Co. plant.

Sorting tuna

Tuna canning. Tuna production line at Maryland Tuna Corp.

Fish canning. Workers at head of production line at Maryland Tuna Corp.

Tuna canning. Cutting choice albacore tuna into quarters.

Workers preparing cut choice albacore tuna.

Tuna canning. Sealed cans of tuna ready for final sterilization process.

Skinning cooked tuna before packing into cans, columbia River Packing Association.

No. 18. A process sometimes called "butchering." It is actually the process of removing the valuable livers, from which vitamin oils are extracted.

No,. 21. Removing skin adn outer layer of dark meat from precooked tuna. Bones , heads and tails also are removed in this operation.

No. 17. Workers about to dump iced tuna into washer-conveyor preparatory to canning.

No. 23. Prepared loins on tray ready for cutting to size to fit cans. Cutting is sometimes done by hand but more frequently by a guillotine-like knife to fill cans properly.

Cleaning cooked tuna for canning.

Gutting tuna.

Skinning cooked tuna before canning.

Skinning cooked tuna before canning.

Putting salt into cans of tuna fish. Columbia River Packing Association.

Brailing bluefin tuna

Tuna catch in seine FWS 2229

Brailing tuna FWS 2230

Preparing to hoist purse rings FWS 2231

Deck load of tuna FWS2233

Deck load of tuna FWS2234

Ready for first hoist FWS 2236

Brailing fish FWS 2237

Large tune fish on deck FWS2238

Coiling line on FWS research vessel OREGON - long-lining for tuna

Coiling line on FWS research vessel OREGON - long-lining for tuna