8 Terms
Contributors in Fish processing
Fish processing
frozen at sea
Fishing; 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, ...
