Pike Place Market is a fish market in Seattle that has been in operation since August 17, 1907 and is one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States. Overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront on Puget Sound, it serves as a place of business for many small farmers, craftspeople and merchants.[1]
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Pike Place Market is featured in Waters of Death in timeline segment of 2 days after people.
The show introduce the Pike Place Fish Market, stating first opened in 1907 and is the place where fishmongers sold their catches from the waters of the world. But without people, it is now filling with scavengers, because the fish will not stay fresh for more than 48 hours unless it's frozen, and since no humans to replenish the ice, it melts and the fish decompose, they release an organic compound called trimethylamine, a stench that brings hungry creatures.
According to Tim Nelson, without the fishmongers to keeping their product refrigerated and so forth, the fishes are going to have rapid decomposition and animals such as coyotes and raccoons come from the outskirts of the downtown, arrives to Pike Place Market where the stench originates.