Value addition in seafood involves processing methods, specialized ingredients, and novel packaging to enhance the nutritional, sensory, and shelf life properties of seafood products. It provides benefits to consumers through convenience and time savings, and benefits industry through higher incomes and employment. Value can be added through innovation, product differentiation, and better marketing. Examples of value-added seafood products include fish oil, fish silage, delicatessen products, and non-food products like fish skin crafts. Advantages include meeting consumer demand, income generation, and variety, while disadvantages include potentially higher costs and need for quality control.

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