By the time they finish, the crewmen are standing ankle-deep in fish guts.
到他们结束时，船员们正站在齐脚踝深的鱼内脏堆里。
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Out front, families are ankle-deep in bivalves, shovelling them into soybean sacks and stacking these in piles. The haul, says a woman with a grin, is on its way to the tables of Beijing.