Seafoods Project
What is a seafood project?
Seafood has a vital role in feeding the growing population. Healthy fish populations result in healthy oceans. The resilience of coastal communities and marine ecosystems rely on sustainable fisheries. The seafood project works with fishermen in collaboration to produce finest seafood and it has low impact on environment. The products are sourced with selective methods by NSSPL such that it offers highest quality products.
Fish processing plant
Fish processing plant begins with pre-processing. It is the time when raw materials are prepared for final processing. It is performed in a shore-based plant or on shipboard and includes operations such as washing, inspection, sorting, butchering, and grading of harvested fish.
The fish butchering involves eliminating nonedible portions such as the head, viscera, fins, and tail. As per the butchering process, fish is reduced as cheap animal feed and much is discarded as waste. The lower figure applies as the fish is sold or canned. The higher figure is applicable when it is made into meat pure products. It is where the skeleton is removed and nearly edible fish to 50 percent is attached.
Final fish processing
The procedures in the Fish processing plant include freezing, heating, irradiating, and controlling water activity. These procedures increase the fish shelf life by promoting the degradation and spoilage, while inhibiting the mechanisms.
What is a seafood processing plant?
A seafood processing plant is referred to as processors or plants. The facilities include a range of procedures and it is to prepare farmed or wild-caught seafood. It is to eventually consume and for retail. Going through the machinery of NSSPL will give you clarity on that you wish to buy as a processing plant for seawood
Seafood is perishable and requires special care to preserve after harvesting. Here there is the need for seafood processing plant. It includes both seafood plants and farms. Some are fishing onboard vessels, while a few are standalone.
There is huge variety in seafood species consumption and no uniform processing procedure is followed. Many things are done as the ultimate goal is preserving the seafood shelf life.
Seafood processing production plants steps
In a seafood project, the seafood processing plant production steps are:
- Product receipt
- Processing includes chilling, washing, giling, skinning, and gutting, cooking, filleting, shucking, salting, smoking, preserving, drying or canning.
- Dispatching
- Storing
- Transporting
Arguably the important aspect of processing plant is the handling, hygiene, and food safety controls in place.
Importance of seafood processing plants
Without seafood processing plants, the seafood products shelf lives are shorter. Additionally, in the chain of seafood production, plants are the main step to make it appealing to the consumer. They do it by deheading and skinning.
Plants reduce food waste and loss. Naturally, the seafood processing includes plenty of by-products and the processing plants reduce the waste amount in the production chain. The by-products such as shells, bones, heads, etc are used as ingredients in animal feed such as fish oil and fishmeal, pharmaceuticals (omega-3 oils) biogas and biofuel, and fertilizer. Using by-products reduces pressure created on fisheries resources.
Prawn processing plant
Shrimp and prawn are the same species. Mostly prawns are captured only in small quantities. Likewise, the terms shrimp and prawn are used in a fish processing plant. It is a way of distinguishing the small from the large specimens.
The prawn processing plant follows good practices of manufacturing and standard sanitation procedure. Qualified and skilled or experienced staff processes under strict hygienic conditions the raw material. It is monitored and backed by quality control personnel to reduce the microbiological contamination risk. The frozen prawn products meeting statutory requirements get best value.
The Prawn Processing Unit features:
- Grading machine for grading size
- Pre-process line featuring conveyorized receiving systems
- Blanching or cooking lines
- Flake ice machine using technology
- Quality control lab with sophisticated equipment
- Water purification system with chlorine for different uses.
- Well equipped with Effluent Treatment.
Many plants keep working as fish processing plant or prawn processing plant. Many process crab and fish in multiple species. It allows plant production for over a season. The processing is quick as seafood is crucial. Especially, in the peak season, workers work per day around 12 to 16 hours.
Consult NSSPL for the right choice of processing plant for seafood!
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