Sentence examples for cannery has from inspiring English sources

There, perched above the river 500 feet offshore, the oldest building on the waterfront, the 136-year-old former Bumble Bee cannery, has been renovated and rebranded as Pier 39-Astoria.

For generations, hundreds of Tlingit wintered there, but around 1900 they relocated south, to Klawock, where a Presbyterian school and Alaska's first cannery had opened.

Once a thriving national industry — and the backdrop of John Steinbeck's gritty "Cannery Row" — sardine canneries have been dwindling for the last half-century.

Tuna fisheries have great potential and foreign-owned canneries have expanded, but licenses have been sold cheaply and fishing zones monitored poorly.

Mr. Murray said the acreage has fallen in part because farms and canneries have gone out of business over the years.

With the increased availability of fresh fruits year-round, consumption of canned fruits has dropped, and California pear canneries have dwindled from two dozen to three.

In recent years, Mr. McCormack said, chain stores and canneries have demanded larger fruits, which he strives to produce by irrigating his trees more frequently and by pruning them to admit more sunlight.

For decades the island's commercial tuna industry was part of a large-scale international operation that brought its catch from distant fisheries to Puerto Rico, where fish were processed for export; however, by the early 21st century most of the canneries had been closed and their operations relocated to countries with lower hourly wages.

The island's historical details instead seemed to float around in the ether (and in guidebooks): First Nations people fished there and had a small village near Montague Harbour; Canadians, Europeans and Japanese had colonized the area in the 19th century and named Galiano for a Spanish navigator; logging and canneries had ceded to tourism as the main industry.

Tuna canneries have been the foundation of American Samoa's economy since the 1950s.

And while the Northern Marianas had earned an international black eye in the 1990s from revelations about working conditions in the garment industry, American Samoa's tuna canneries had a better (albeit not perfect) reputation.