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Morocco is the largest canned sardine exporter in the world and the leading supplier of sardines to the European market. Sardines represent more than 62% of the Moroccan fish catch and account for 91% of raw material usage in the domestic canning industry. Some 600,000 tonnes of fresh sardines are processed each year by the industry.
In 1880, Norwegian fish canneries began exporting sardines. [2] At the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, the Norwegian exhibition included smoked sardines. [3]In 1903, a year after royal permission had been granted, Chr. Bjelland & Co. first began exporting the King Oscar brand of sardines to the United States, and by 1920, the brand was established in the USA and British markets. [4]
In the United States, the sardine canning industry peaked in the 1950s. Since then, the industry has been on the decline. Since then, the industry has been on the decline. The canneries in Monterey Bay , in what was known as Cannery Row in Monterey County, California (where John Steinbeck 's novel of the same name was set), failed in the mid-1950s.
Shortly after, the British inventor and merchant Peter Durand patented his own method, this time in a tin can, creating the modern-day process of canning foods. [5] Canning was used in the 1830s in Scotland to keep fish fresh until it could be marketed. By the 1840s, salmon was being canned in North America in Maine and New Brunswick. [6]
Sardines Sardine canning became a major American industry on both coasts in the 1950s, strongly associated with historic communities such as Cannery Row in Monterey, California.
An 83-foot (25-meter) motor boat that was one of the first refrigerated sardine carriers during the heyday of Maine’s sardine industry is going to be scrapped after a recovery operation to ...
In the 19th century, it became famous as the site of the first canning factory for sardines fished in the Bay of Douarnenez, the beginning of the sardine industry which was important for this region. Now uninhabited, the island has become part of the national Parc naturel marin d'Iroise (Marine Park) established in 2007. It is accessible to ...
California was once home to thriving sardine canning factories in the coastal town of Monterey, which inspired John Steinbeck's “Cannery Row.” The industry disappeared decades ago as the fish ...