Hyphens: 'big fish processing plant'

Just a quick one today as I've been on a CS3 training course all afternoon.

Here's a phrase from recent raw copy that could have benefited from a hyphen:

big fish processing plant


Is that a big plant that processes fish, or a plant that processes big fish? The former, I would assume...

1 comment:

Apus said...

...or it could refer to a hefty piscine herbivore digesting a meal. Well, sort of.