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unusual facts about Fish market


Fish market

Mercamadrid, Madrid, Spain; the world's second largest fish market, marketing about 220,000 tonnes a year.


Arlette Schneiders

The selection committee awarded her first prize with a commission to carry out renovation work at the Fish Market in Luxembourg City.

Massarelos

Other landmarks include Porto's main Custom House, Rosa Mota sports hall, Porto's major fish market and the Campo Alegre neighborhood, where a theatre and several buildings of the University of Porto are located.


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Chira Island

From Puntarenas a daily boat goes to Isla Chira from the fish market.

Clarias nigricans

The eel-like catfish of this region were long assumed to belong to the widespread species Clarias nieuhofii but examination of 6 specimens purchased from a fish market in Samarinda in 1999 and preserved specimens from the same location revealed consistent and distinctive differences indicating a separate species.

Everybody Wants to Be Italian

Jake Bianski is the owner of a fish market in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts.

Ílhavo Municipality

Within the municipality, there are two villages that are popular in the summertime: Praia ("beach") da Barra, where the tallest lighthouses in Portugal (Farol de Aveiro ou da Barra) is situated and Praia da Costa Nova (Costa Nova do Prado), with its typical houses called Palheiros (they are characterized for fronts in wood or concrete, listed with lively and cheerful colors alternated with the white color) and fish market.

Knox River

It begins at the village of Fish Market as the outlet of George Pond and flows northwest through Enfield Center to the southeastern end of Mascoma Lake.

L.I.G. Colony

The area also has Dainik Bhaskar complex popularly known as Bhaskar and fish market close to the Gurudwara.

National Chung Cheng University

The university is within convenient driving distance of many other attractions as well: to the east is the Alishan National Scenic Area of Chiayi, one of the most beautiful mountain districts in the world; to the west are various coastal towns along the Taiwan Strait, such as Budai, Chiayi, which is famous for its fish market; and, to the northwest, on the border with Yunlin County, is the township of Beigang, home to the oldest Mazu Temple in Taiwan, Chaotian Temple.

Porticus Octaviae

This role is remembered in the name of the annexed church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria (Italian: "St. Angelus in the Fish Market").

Skovshoved

The locality was associated with its fish wives, known as Skovserkoner, who would carry the day's catch in caskets on their back to the fish market at Gammel Strand in Copenhagen.

Squalus formosus

It was accidentally found in Taiwan's Tashi Fish Market by William T. White and a colleague of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Hobart, Australia.

St George Botolph Lane

The church’s proximity to Billingsgate fish market prompted James Peller Malcolm to write "The narrow streets and alleys and their wet slippery footways will not bear description or invite unnecessary visits".

Wright's Coal Tar Soap

Now non-existent, Old Fish Street Hill near St Paul’s Cathedral was the 14th century fish market, before Billingsgate (it is not the present-day Fish Street Hill by the Monument).

Yantai stingray

The Yantai stingray was described by Yuanting Chu in his 1960 Cartilaginous Fishes of China, based on specimens obtained from the Shanghai Fish Market, Dongfushan, and Huaniao.