FIELD: agriculture.SUBSTANCE: device contains a drive as a hopper equipped with infeed conveyor, the tool for orienting fish head in the desired direction, having parallel mounted on trays under noted for transporting fish and device to change the orientation of the fish with a rotating body for transporting fish. The means for orienting the fish comprises a receiving tray and a tray for directing the oriented fish, which are connected by a rotating organ of the device for changing the orientation of the fish, made in the form of a drive equipped with a horizontally oriented disk. The disc is set at the same level as the trays and rotates as the wrongly oriented fish moves on the output tray. The loading conveyor is made vibrating and equipped with scrapers made with oval recesses on the working surfaces. The loading conveyor is used to lift the fish to the guide tray, installed obliquely above the receiving tray and attached to the top of the hopper. The device also includes devices for obtaining video image