packing fish

packing fish
a method for keeping partially dried and dried cod-fish from spoiling or developing dun, q.v., when damp weather conditions prevailed that did not allow for spreading. Salted and drying fish would be moved from one pile and repacked into another to keep dun and other conditions from harming the fish

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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