Acronym NA
Category
Fisheries
Title Autom fangstbehandling av hvitfisk på snurrevadfartøy - Automatic catch processing of whitefish on spinner vessels 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 institution
SINTEF-SFH - SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture (Norway)
Institutions involved
FHF - Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (Norway) ,
NA - SINTEF Ocean (Norway) ,
Start year 2010 End year 2014 Funding (€) € 984,180 Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/900526/ Summary The fishing technology department started research and development work in 2008 with the aim of improving and simplifying the catch processing for the spinner fleet. Parts I and II of the project were completed in 2009. An initial work was started where i.a. a description of technological challenges and opportunities related to health, environment, safety and catch treatment in spinner fishing was performed.
Through results in the project's parts I and II, as well as a working meeting where several actors from the spinner fleet were represented, automation of catch management up to and including bluffing / direct gutting was identified as one of the most important contributions to improvement on board spinner vessels.
Automatic bleeding of anesthetized and live fish on board will both increase the quality of the fish and remove heavy workloads for the fishermen. In addition, it has recently been seen that part of the land industry has made arrangements to gut the fish on land, which has meant that fishermen can make adjustments when it comes to catch processing. This can provide several benefits, including better fish quality, better care of by-products, simpler arrangements for catch processing and less workload for the fishermen on board. This project includes part III of the R&D work that has been initiated and aims to increase the degree of automation on board spinner vessels.
For first handling of fish, it is most important to look more closely at the possibilities of handling large volumes in a cost-effective way. When it comes to spinner fishing, it is very difficult to limit the size of the individual catches and the problems arise when a lot of fish is caught; it gets hectic on deck and bottlenecks occur. This often means that the quality of the fish deteriorates, where the consequences can be poor fillet quality, poor soaking and damage. Prolonged stress of fish can also have a negative effect on quality and is not least a negative factor with regard to animal welfare.
The spinner fleet has a need to register the weight of the catch and sort fish by species, both to be able to report to land on the type / quantity of fish of each species and according to requirements from regulations (ref. Quality regulations for fish and fish products). Today, fish are sorted mainly manually. It is a laborious job and can in some cases be a bottleneck. As of today, no automatic weighting and sorting systems are used in the spinner fleet.
The spinnaker fleet is a complex group of boats with great size variation and different modes of operation. On board a fishing vessel, there is usually little space left over, regardless of size and type of operation. Together with a tough production environment, with large movements, humid and corrosive environment, this places great demands on the development of new technology to be installed on board. The physical framework conditions will place restrictions on which solutions can be chosen."
"Developing automated catch processing lines for more efficient processing of fish that eases the workload, increases productivity and better fish quality on board.
Sub-goals:
• To establish a set of framework conditions for a selected and representative spinner vessel to function optimally with the highest possible degree of automated catch processing.
• To achieve a gentle storage of live fish before killing.
• To adapt existing stunning methods for wild fish.
• To develop concepts for automatic bleeding of wild fish.
• To develop a weight registration system for fish on board.
• To develop sorting system per species on board.
Keywords
Process efficiency;
Byproducts;
Whitefish;
Vessel technology;
Fishing vessels;
Fish;
Fishing technology;
Storage;
Animal welfare;
Purse seine;
Fish quality;
Marine Region
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0
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