3304-00 Fish processors, packers and repackagers - Wholesale or combined wholesale/retail
Applies to:
Processing, packaging, and repackaging fish and/or shellfish when conducted by a wholesale or combined wholesale/retail operation.
Products include, but are not limited to:
• Fish such as cod, halibut, salmon, tuna, and whitefish;
• Shellfish.
Work activities include, but are not limited to:
• Inspecting the commercial fishing vessel's records to ensure that the fish were caught, handled, and stored in accordance with all applicable laws;
• Unloading, identifying, and inspecting for quality;
• Weighing;
• Storing in a refrigerated area or a freezer to await further disposition;
• Processing: Canning, cooking, cutting, filleting;
• Packing and repackaging as requested by the customers;
• Selling to fish and meat markets, supermarkets, grocery stores, restaurants, or other wholesale dealers.
Exclusions:
• Cold storage or locker operations of products owned by others are classified in 4401 or 4404 as applicable.
• Raising, harvesting, and subsequent processing and packing of shellfish are classified in the appropriate classifications.
• Retail fish activities or the packaging of whole minnow, herring, or anchovy (not processed) are classified in 3303.
3304-01 Meat and/or poultry dealers - Wholesale or combined wholesale/retail
Applies to:
Wholesale or combined wholesale/retail distribution of fresh, frozen, cured, or smoked meat or poultry. Wholesale dealers typically do not have display cases for the meat or poultry and receive orders by telephone or by mail.
Work activities include, but are not limited to:
• Purchasing meat (whole, half, or quarter carcasses) from slaughterhouses, and poultry from poultry processing plants;
• Processing and butchering of poultry;
• Cutting into chops, fillets, roasts, steaks, or poultry parts;
• Selling to commercial or institutional customers such as restaurants, hotels, grocery stores, meat and poultry markets, hospitals, and prisons.
Exclusions:
• Meat products manufacturing, canning or dehydrating, and packing house or slaughterhouse operations are classified in 4301.
• Custom meat cutting operations, including farm kill, are classified in 4302.
• Cold storage or locker operations are classified in 4401 or 4404 as applicable, when conducted as a separate and distinct business.
• Processing, packaging, and repackaging fish is classified in 3304-00.
• Retail meat, fish, and poultry dealers are classified in 3303.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 51.04.020 and 51.16.035. WSR 25-23-070, s 296-17A-3304, filed 11/18/25, effective 1/1/26. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035, 51.16.100, 2008 c 70, and Title 51 RCW. WSR 08-15-132, § 296-17A-3304, filed 7/22/08, effective 10/1/08. WSR 07-01-014, recodified as § 296-17A-3304, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.16.035. WSR 99-18-068, § 296-17-57603, filed 8/31/99, effective 10/1/99; WSR 98-18-042, § 296-17-57603, filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; WSR 96-12-039, § 296-17-57603, filed 5/31/96, effective 7/1/96. Statutory Authority: RCW 51.04.020(1) and 51.16.035. WSR 89-24-051 (Order 89-22), § 296-17-57603, filed 12/1/89, effective 1/1/90.]