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Listen to a Maine Fish-Steak Canning Company Worker Discuss Rates and Wages

Listen to a Maine Fish-Steak Canning Company Worker Discuss Rates and Wages

Packing cans of fish in Prospect Harbor, Maine.
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Transcript

NARRATOR: Most of the people who work in the fishing industry today never go to sea and never catch a fish. Instead, they work in canneries and frozen-food factories, processing fish brought in on thousands of vessels from around the world.

WORKER: My name is Mary. I've been working for the Stinson canning company here in Prospect Harbor, Maine, for about nine years. Today we're filling tin cans with slices of fish called fish steaks.

Since we're paid by the case, and there are 100 cans of fish steaks to a case, how much I earn depends on how fast I work. So you'll have to excuse me because I've got lots of work to do yet.
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