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Future of fish processing industry of India

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Title Future of fish processing industry of India
 
Creator Pillai, V K
 
Subject Fishery Technology
 
Description The fish processing industry in India, during the past ten years has been rather exclusively
concerned with shrimps largely because of the easy market which the shrimps
provide abroad. The impact of shrimp export has not been very healthy, as the industry
failed to diversify itself to other fish and fish products. Shortage of Shrimps as raw
material in some areas or in certain seasons has led to under utilization of the freezing
and canning plants. Surely the future of the processing industry in India does not lie in
shrimps alone, for these constitute only about 12% of the country's total catch. Therefore,
all other fishes including the trash fish should be considered first as, important by
the industry.
The Central Institute of Fisheries Technology has made considerable advance on
the economic utilization of many other varieties of fish. These include marketing of the
entire fish, fish fillets and picked meat. Other products such as fish flour, fish protein
concentrate, fish hydrolysate, fish soup powder, fish flakes and fish sausages seem to have
great possibilities. Little known products such as bacteriological peptone prepared from
trash fish are also important.
 
Publisher The Marine Biological Association of India, Cochin
 
Date 1973
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2472/1/Article_30.pdf
Pillai, V K (1973) Future of fish processing industry of India. MBAI Special Publication dedicated to Dr. N K Panikkar (1). pp. 271-275.