A fishmonger is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers and are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, merchandising and selling their product. In some countries modern supermarkets are replacing fishmongers who operate in shops or fish markets.
A fishmonger in Pike Place Market on the waterfront of Seattle.
A 16th-century fishmongers stall. Bartolomeo Passarotti.
A fishmonger prepares to clean and butcher a pair of large fish in Malé.
The fishwife Molly Malone of "Cockles and Mussels" fame.
A fishwife, fish-fag or fishlass is a woman who sells fish. She is typically the wife of a fisherman, selling her husband's catch, but other sources of fish have been used.
Detail of a Cullercoats fishlass, from Inside the Bar, by Winslow Homer 1883
Fishwives in St Andrews, Scotland bait their lines
Fishwife (1940), Gammel Strand, Copenhagen
Statue of the Nairn Fishwife