Fish: quality management of seafood - off-flavour in fish

4 important questions on Fish: quality management of seafood - off-flavour in fish

What are the problems of off-flavour aquacultured fish?

  • Quality problem
    • causes low appreciation / consumer rejection
    • low market potential and price
  • depuration is expensive
    • depuration = putting fish in clean water to get rid of off-flavour components

What are the dimensions of the off-flavour problem?

  • Global problem
  • occurs in aquatic systems with:
    • high fish density
    • high feed/nutrient load
    • where microbial communities are present
      • in RAS as filtration system
      • in natural habitats
    • in fresh and marine systems
    • in farmed and wild fish
    • across different species

How does geosmine saturation in fish work?

Geosmine is lipophilic
goes from water to fat tissue of fish, until equilibrium has formed
how to get rid of it?  -> when geosmine levels in the waters lower, the geosmine will flow out of the fish again.
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What are the economic impacts of off-flavour?

  • Depuration
    • depuration facilities and investments
    • Biomass loss: fish are not fed during depuration and lose weight
  • Consumer rejection/ low appreciation
    • market withdraws fish
    • reduced market volume and price
    • has impact on farmed fish in general

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