Way back in the fall of 2006, I was fortunate enough to be one of the first international journalists to tour the massive new Pacific Andes plant being built in Qingdao, China.
At the time, the $80 million (€72.3 million) complex -- a self-contained seafood city, actually -- included a processing plant with a capacity of 60,000 tons, a cold storage warehouse with capacity for 41,000 tons, housing for as many as 13,000 workers, a water treatment plant, administrative offices, a recreation and medical center for employees, a fish meal plant and lab testing facilities.
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