FISH ROOM

fish room: translation

1) fish hold (an enclosed space on a vessel for storing fish; may be insulated and/or refrigerated)

2) a piece of land by the shore from which a fishery was conducted in Newfoundland

3) the stages. q.v., flakes, q.v., stores, crew and family housing, and other facilities where a fish catch was landed and processed in Newfoundland

4) a small building for storing dried and salted cod in Newfoundland

5) fish top (a movable box-like structure to cover piled cod-fish. Also called fish house)