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BEACH CLIFF - Fresh From The Sea

The steps in producing quality sardine and fish steak products are simple:

• Fresh from the cold Atlantic waters of the Gulf of Maine, the day's catch is taken rapidly by company ship to one of the two modern BEACH CLIFF packing plants in Maine.

• A salt water ice slurry refrigeration method insures that the fish are as fresh in the can as just caught. The temperature is held around 32°F and quality control inspection continues at every step of the process.

• In the packing room, sardine size herring are packed four to twelve fish per can. Larger fish become BEACH CLIFF Fish Steaks and fillets. Regardless of size or product, every single can is packed by hand - over 65,000,000 cans a year! No machine has ever been invented that could match the speed, skill and care of our Maine packers.

• The packed cans are then cooked twice. First the freshly packed herring go into huge cookers for 25 minutes. Following the first cooking, the special BEACH CLIFF sauces are added to the sardines or fish steaks to enhance the succulent ocean-fresh flavor of the fish. The cans are then sealed and enter a retort for a final cooking.

• After cooling, the cans are inspected and hand packed for shipping. In our vertically integrated company, we even manufacture the aluminum cans.

This attention to quality, combined with production technology and the pride our employees take in producing these Maine delicacies, assures you of the very finest fish products available.

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