Acronym NA
Category
Seafood Processing
Title Reduce run-off from fresh fish transport on trucks Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Bjørn Tore Rotabakk Coordinator email bjorn.tore.rotabakk@nofima.no
Coordinator institution
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
BIM - Ireland's Seafood Development Agency (Ireland) ,
MATIS - Matis Ltd (Iceland) ,
NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) ,
SINTEF - SINTEF (Norway) ,
Start year 2022 End year 2023 Funding (€) € 241,546 Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/901778/ Summary Most fresh fish is transported by truck in expanded polystyrene (EPS) boxes cooled with ice. Due to insufficient cooling of fresh fish before packing/icing and/or during transport, a significant amount of the ice melts and the meltwater is allowed to run off the trucks and onto Norwegian roads. Norway is a major exporter of seafood, with an export of 1.7 Mt of wild-caught fish and 1.4 Mt of farmed fish in 2021. Of this, 1.1 Mt of salmon was exported fresh (SSB), while 111 Kt of cod fish was fresh. The Norwegian Seafood Association and the Norwegian Truck Owners' Association (NLF) estimate that a single truck can release up to 3,600 l of meltwater during a 36-hour transport.
Based on this, a project is being planned to provide knowledge about preferred temperature regimes from packaging to delivery of fresh fish in order to reduce the amount of meltwater during transport. The research challenges in this project are divided into three: (1) Document the current status and document temperature during transport, (2) quantify melting rates during transport, and (3) map possible existing solutions and how this is solved in other seafood nations.
Main objective:
To provide knowledge about preferred temperature regimes from packaging to delivery of fresh fish in order to reduce the amount of melt water during transport.
Sub-goals:
1. To document the current status and practice for documenting the temperature during transport.
2. To clarify how much meltwater there will be if all applicable requirements and best practices for temperature in the product and the cold chain up to the receiver are fully complied with.
3. To clarify which practical temperature regime provides the least possible runoff without negatively affecting fish quality.
4. To survey equipment for collecting meltwater during transport and whether it is dimensioned as needed.
5. To carry out a comparative study of how these challenges are handled by other comparable producer nations (such as the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Ireland).
6. To draw up clear recommendations for measures that can contribute to reduced meltwater based on the results from the above sub-goals.
Keywords
Fish quality;
Packaging;
Fish;
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