# In Spain's anchovy capital, the craft has always been in women's hands

> A feature profiles hand-filleting of anchovies at a canning factory in Santoña, Cantabria, where about 2,000 people work in the region's anchovy canning industry, around 90% of them women. It describes how local workers are being replaced by women from abroad learning the craft.

- Date: 2026-11-02 · published 2026-11-03T03:13:03.073Z
- Category: market · region Spain · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/76944-in-spain-s-anchovy-capital-the-craft-has-always-been-in-women-s-hands
- Commodities: [Fishmeal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FISHMEAL.md)

## Why it matters

Canned anchovy is a human-food channel separate from the reduction fishery that supplies fishmeal, so there is no direct feed price implication.

## Sources

- sirenbywanderful.substack.com: https://sirenbywanderful.substack.com/p/in-spains-anchovy-capital-the-craft

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