Processing and product development of bivalves and gastropods

Abstract

Food eating habit of the people is changing very fast particularly in recent times, due to improvement in socio-economic conditions of the people, availability of new resources as food, application of enriched, prepared foods etc, for the convenience of the customers. In this changing situation, processing good quality food in different parts of the country. The domestic market is vast and practically remains untapped as far as fishery products are concerned. In the export sector also, product diversification is the urgent need of the hour. Even after three and half decades of fisheries development, the seafood export industry still depends for its export earnings on one single item namely frozen shrimp, though other items like lobsters, squids, cuttle fish and fishes like pomfret earn foreign exchange to some extent.