value addition in sea food : reasons, value added products & merits and demerits.

1. Value Addition In
Seafood
P.Shobiya
Department of Fisheries
Science
University of Jaffna

2. Outline
• What is value addition?
• Why value addition?
• Ways of value addition?
• Novel products in brief
• Advantages and disadvantages
of value addition in sea food
• Conclusion

3. What Is Value addition?
Adding value means:
– employing processing methods,
– adding specialized ingredients
– novel packaging to enhance the nutrition,
– Sensory characteristics,
– shelf life and
– convenience of food products
Why value addition
• Consumers are time starved
• Consumers are demanding fish

4. Ways of value addition in sea
food
1.Innovation
2.Differentiating the products
3.Better marketing

5. Food by products
• Shark fins, rays and cartilage
• Fish extract
• Fish entrails
• Pet foods

6. Non food by products
• Fish body and liver oils
• Fish glue
• Leather
• Artificial pearl
• Pharmaceutical and biochemical products
• Fish albumin
• Swim bladder
• Fertilizers and fish silage

7. Fish Oil or Shark Liver Oil
Fish or shark liver oils are important as
• Food material (omega -3 fatty acids)
• Feed material (Animal feed..)
• Industrial purposes (paints, lubricants,)
Fish contained 1 – 20 % of oil, shark liver contained
20 – 65% of oil

8. Fish Silage

9. • Extraction of natural biopolymers out of marine
waste / Production of Chitin and Chitosan
Uses : Cosmetic industry, purification of industrial
effluents
• manufacturing of functional thin film
Biodegradable polymers
Raw materials: Skeleton of shrimp, prawn, squid and
crabs

10. Fish Skin

11. Ornament
Vase
Fish hand bungle

12. Delicatessen Products
• Fish sauce
• Tuna ham
• Fish balls
• Fish meal
• Fish cake
• Fish biscuit
• Fish nuggets
• Fish soup
• Fish sausages
• Fish fingers
• Fish noodles

13. fish block
Fish fillet
Marinated fish

14. Other……..

15. Merits
• Genuine market demand
and better income.
• Generate employment.
• Offering variety of flavors
and coatings.
• Develop creativity and
innovation.
• Increase satisfaction of
consumers(time, place,
preparation)
• Giving variety of products
Demerits
• May be high cost than
traditional foods.
• quality assurance for
healthy product(additives
& ingredients)
• Request trained staffs
• Processing takes more
time.
• Questionable for human
health
• Focus on income and
their competition

16. Thank You
Reference:
• Adding value to Local fishery and aquaculture products :
European Commission, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.
• Food intake in fish by Dominic Houligan
• Images are taken from internet