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The Dutch fish-processing industry consists of approximately 300 sites. The most important sites of the processing industry are Urk, Yerseke, Katwijk, Spakenburg, IJmuiden, Lemmer and Zoutkamp. Furthermore, fish products are traded on a regular or incidental basis by a few hundred wholesale companies without processing facilities.
Within industrial fish processing in the Netherlands, there is a distinction between:

• Round and flatfish industry
• Processing herring
• Smokehouses for salmon and eel
• Trade in frozen pelagic fish
• Shellfish sector
• Processing shrimps
• Inland fish wholesale
• Other fish processing and wholesale

An estimated 6,500 people work in the fish-processing sector, and approximately 20% of the employees are employed on a temporary basis. The labour requirement depends on the varying availability of raw materials.