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Sanford’s fish market

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Sanford’s fish market

Albert Sanford founded a well-known fishing company based in Auckland. He established his first fish market in 1894, in a single-storey building on the corner of Albert Street and Customs Street West. The building was demolished in 1915.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Seafood – Early Māori and settler diets, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/5096/sanfords-fish-market (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.