Fish Hold definition
Fish Hold means the area where seafood or seafood products are kept once caught and kept fresh during the remainder of the voyage before being offloaded to shore or another tender vessel. The fish hold is typically a refrigerated seawater holding tank, where the seafood product is kept cool by mechanical refrigeration or ice. It can also include continuous flow systems needed to keep certain organisms such as lobster and crab alive until they are unloaded. Fish hold effluent is the water discharged from fish holds.