Pasternack is in the kitchen, filleting a mackerel on a cutting board.

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In the early 1990s, when Pacific Andes began filleting operations in Qingdao's Shandong Province, the company realized that it could capitalize even further on low-cost labor in China.

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Mr Robertson spent 47 years filleting fish for a living.

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Earlier this month, a 52-year-old fisherman on Vancouver Island was badly mauled after a black bear swam over to his boat, scrambled on board and began attacking him, refusing to let go despite being repeatedly struck with a gaff, beaten with a hammer and stabbed with various sharp objects until a rescuer finally managed to slit its throat with a filleting knife.

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