Fish products

Over one billion people rely on fish as their primary source of animal protein.

[3] Major improvements in processing as well as in refrigeration, ice-making and transportation have allowed increasing commercialization and distribution of fish in a greater variety of product forms in the past few decades.

[3] In Ancient Roman society, garum, a type of fish sauce condiment, was popular.

Sharkskin and rayskin which are covered with, in effect, tiny teeth (dermal denticles) were formerly used in the same manner as sandpaper is in the modern era.

Other marine life taken as food includes shellfish, crustaceans, and sea cucumber.