Fish processing

Fish processing

Contributors in Fish processing

Fish processing

Fish frozen soon after capture, either onboard a fishing vessel with freezing plant (usually vertical plate freezers), such as a freezer trawler, or on a factory ship that is equipped to process its ...

silage

Fishing; Fish processing

A liquefied product prepared by acid hydrolysis of fish or fish wastes. Used as a feed for animals. Formic acid or a mixture of formic and propionic acids are commonly used at 3-4% of the weight of ...

smoking

Fishing; Fish processing

The process of applying wood smoke to impart a smoky or smoke flavour to, and to partially dry a fish, or part of a fish such as a fillet, or shellfish meat, to produce a smoked fish product, and ...

smoking kiln

Fishing; Fish processing

There are basically two types of commercial kiln, the traditional kiln, sometimes called a smokehouse, a batch operation that depends on natural convection, and the mechanical kiln with forced ...

softwood

Fishing; Fish processing

Wood from coniferous trees such as pine; the sawdust produces a resinous smoke when burned. It is less suitable for imparting a smoky flavour to fish than that from hardwood, but the smoke from ...

sorbic acid

Fishing; Fish processing

An organic acid found naturally in some fruits. It is a permitted food additive as a preservative and is used as the sodium or potassium salt for this purpose in some fishery products, especially ...

sorting

Fishing; Fish processing

Separating into defined categories of species, sex, length, weight, either at sea or onshore, or grading to sort into defined categories of some aspect of quality such as size or freshness. If used, ...