03 2010
Seafood Byproduct Seminar in Ireland mid June
The Irish Farmers Assoiciation (IFA) Aquaculture and the Irish Sea Fisheries Board, Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM)’s Aquaculture division will host a special seminar in the Sheraton Hotel, Athlone on June 16, starting at 11.00am.
The seminar will be open to all seafood processors and aquaculture operators and will look at the two main issues on by-products through specialist talks and discussions: 1. Regulationof by-products and 2. Options and opportunities for disposal / sale.
Options for the industry for alternatives to rendering of seafood by-products are gradually coming on stream, including incineration, composting, anaerobic digestion and transformation into technical products. All of these areas will be looked at in detail at the seminar.
04 2010
Work on utilization of seafood byproducts continues in Alaska
Last November, Chilkoot Fish and Caviar Inc. of Haines was hit with a complaint by the EPA that could cost the company the maximum civil penalty of $177,500 for continuously violating its waste discharge permit under the Clean Water Act over a period of four years.
In January 2007, Deep Creek Custom Packaging Inc. of Ninilchik was fined $10,500 by the EPA, also for improperly disposing of fish waste.
Under Clean Water Act regulations, fish processors must grind their waste to a size of a half-inch or less before discharge. Even under proper disposal, however, fish waste can impact the environment by creating “dead zones,” essentially sucking out oxygen needed for live fish to thrive.
The crackdown on fish waste discharges is of special concern for small companies that process less than 25 tons per day that cannot afford the multi-million dollar price tags for equipment deployed at large-scale operations that separates, dries and grinds waste into fishmeal for sale as a byproduct to the agriculture and aquaculture industries.
This is where entrepreneurs like Sandro Lane and Leo Pedersen and scientists such as Scott Smiley and Peter Bechtel come in. Lane and Pedersen have found creative ways to simultaneously turn previously discarded fish waste into economically valuable products while aiding small processors.
11 2009
New fish peptide isolate plant in S. America
Bluewave Marine Ingredients is please to announce its new sanitary facility dedicated to the production of Fish Peptides for Feed / Food ingredient applications is up and running in So. America.
The sanitary grade facility began commercial scale production of Peptides this summer with Ecuadorian poultry/aquaculture clients being the first to incorporate PerfectDigestTM FPi into their feed formulas.
06 2009
Using Fish to Harvest Algae for Oil and Protein
LiveFuels, based in California, is using their 10 million dollar in funding to try things differently in growing and harvesting algae. It feeds the algae to the fish and lets the fish work on harvesting it. After the fish fatten up, they are caught in nets and processed for oil and protein used in animal feed. LiveFuels is testing different breeds of fish and researching when would be the optimum time to harvest the fish.
11 2009
Marine DNA used to create improved optoelectronic devices
Made mainstream by its role in human-genome mapping, genetic-trait analysis, and forensics, deoxyribonucleic acid is also playing a role as a biopolymer for the creation of novel photonic devices.
Andrew Steckl and colleagues at the University of Cincinnati have used DNA to improve the efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for illumination and displays. To make efficient biopolymers, a better understanding is needed of the chemical composition of the DNA material as it is synthesized from its low-density water environment to a dryer, condensed state. “DNA’s natural environment is water, but 99% of the [optoelectronic] devices we work on are solid-state,” says Andrew Steckl. While DNA in solution is being explored for use in optofluidic devices, Steckl sees three critical areas of research necessary to establish the commercial viability of DNA biopolymer-based photonic devices: ensuring an adequate material supply, perfecting the conversion from water-soluble to organic-solvent-soluble DNA, and controlling the “wet-to-dry” transition and understanding its effect on the DNA structure and properties.
11 2009
Herring milt to fight Malnutrition
Food products containing herring milt may in the future contribute to fighting malnutrition.
Up until the 1960s, English coalminers consumed products based on herring milt to stay healthy. Such products were also sold in Norway. However, this raw material from herring is not exploited today. Scientists and industry want to attempt to change this.
A new project, which is being funded by the Norwegian Fishermen’s Sales Organization for Pelagic Fish, is working to develop a powder product based on white corn and herring milt.
“Many people object to eating products based on milt, which is fish sperm, but think it’s fine to eat roe, which is fish eggs,” says Jan Pettersen, Senior Scientist at Nofima Ingredients.
“But the milt is extremely nutritious and can contribute to fighting malnutrition in areas where this is common.”
Herring milt has the ideal composition as an additive to food in developing countries, as it contains high levels of many of the nutrients missing in the food.
11 2009
Marine Biotech Revenues Projected to Reach $3.78 Billion by 2012, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc
A growing interest from the medical, pharmaceutical, aquaculture, and industrial sectors, the global market for marine biotechnology drive this projected rise in revenue. The advent of advanced scientific disciplines such as molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics and the application of information technology to biotechnology has tremendously enhanced human understanding of marine life. Widening applications in several end-use areas including marine transportation, environmental remediation, cosmetics, research, and food sectors also contributed to market growth. However, the industry is still in a nascent stage and accounts for a tiny percentage of the overall biotech market. Given the vast untapped potential, the marine biotech sector holds promising growth prospects for the future. The United States is the single largest market for marine biotechnology worldwide. The market is forecasted to be over US$1 billion in 2008 as stated by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. Non-US markets are projected to record faster growth with a compounded annual rate exceeding 5% through 2012. Thickeners including agar, alginates, carrageen, and flocculants account for a majority of the marine biomaterials market. The marine biotech sector is characterized by the presence of numerous players ranging from pharmaceutical companies to research-oriented niche companies.
11 2008
U.S. Seafood Processors Missing Out on Opportunity for Additional Value and Revenue With Byproducts
Strategro International, a market entry and business growth consultancy, spoke to a packed room of seafood processors at the International Boston Seafood Show recently offering examples of how companies and researchers worldwide are developing valuable products from seafood processing waste streams.
For the unenlightened seafood company, seafood byproducts can pose a headache and a significant cost item for disposal, storage, or dumping (which in many areas is illegal). For those involved in further processing of seafood byproducts, desirable compounds can be extracted and purified into high value ingredients with application in the feed, food, health and nutrition, cosmeceuticals, and the research and diagnostic markets.
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