PURPOSE: To transport fishes in a desired attitude between different devices without stopping the fishes by installing a means of sending the fishes while laying the trunk of the fishes in the transporting direction and a means of forcibly sending the fishes in the direction perpendicular to the transporting direction during a transporting path.

CONSTITUTION: Fishes F are sent in a transporting direction A by a transporting means and head parts F1 are cut by a rotary blade 13 for cutting the head parts. Then, the sent fishes F are taken out in a direction B perpendicular to the transporting direction by a taking means 3 and supplied to a treating device 4 by a guiding means 5 in a downward laid state of the trunk of the fish.