Tuna, as the world's most famous high-value fish species today, although it has long been widely eaten, but its "upper" time is not long, especially the famous bluefin tuna, in addition to the European Mediterranean region and other areas have a long tradition of eating, in the 1950s, it was only a european and American recreational fishing object fish and pet feed fish.
As Japan leads the trend of tuna consumption, Europe and the United States are also close behind, almost less than 30 years, foodies put the tuna family up to the bluefin, down to the bonito are eaten on the table of the global people, bluefin, big eye, etc. are used to make sashimi to supply the high-end market, bonito and yellowfin are used to make canned fish to supply the mass market.
Although in the international arena, tuna consumption is "booming", China's distant-water fisheries are also involved in the global tuna trade, there are imported canned tuna in domestic supermarkets, and there are also tuna sashimi in Japanese stores, but to be honest, tuna in our domestic seafood consumption market participation is not as high as everyone thinks.
This can be seen from the fact that China's ocean-going tuna trading company mainly relies on export trade, and some time ago, the domestic East China Sea and the South China Sea were out of the water two large bluefin tuna weighing more than 600 kilograms, originally the audience thought that they would sell "sky-high prices", but the result was as if they had discussed well, they only sold 100,000 pieces of "low price", which shows that the gap between imagination and reality is still very large.
Although we don't eat much tuna in our country, it is very likely that we are now consuming tuna through other means, especially for women and pet consumers.
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Starting this year, Thailand's Tai Wansheng Group, the world's largest producer of canned tuna, will invest additionally in the processing of by-products of canned tuna processing to maximize the utilization of raw tuna ingredients.
As an aside, this Tai Wansheng Group was founded by overseas Chinese in Shantou, China, and is a legend in the aquaculture industry, and is now one of the nine major aquatic giants in the world.
Previously, the group's tuna canning factory would cook whole bonito and separate by-products such as fish bones and skin when processing raw materials, which would then be used to make fishmeal and fish oil.
The processing of tuna fish bones, skins and scales into fishmeal and fish oil is a routine operation in the aquatic processing industry, because the global aquaculture industry has a huge demand for fishmeal and fish oil, especially in China, so this fishmeal processing is also profitable.
However, compared with our latest domestic "riot operation", this operation can only be regarded as "primary" utilization, so Thai enterprises also intend to learn from our domestic and engage in the "finishing" of tuna "scraps".
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Everyone knows that China is the world's processing center, so it is no surprise that China is also a global aquatic processing center, whether it is frozen cod sent from Europe and the United States, or the tuna we catch in the sea, it will be processed into fish and meat products in China first, and then re-exported.
Because China's aquatic processing industry developed early, after nearly thirty years of development, it cannot be said that industrial technology has reached the top level in the world, but the development and improvement of the entire industrial chain has not run, and domestic aquatic processing enterprises have long begun to think about how to maximize the value of aquatic processing by-products.
China's Shandong Province is a large province of aquatic processing, especially Shandong Rongcheng, has the country's largest tuna processing base, the name of this enterprise is not reported, anyway, the national tuna processing head enterprise. The company has worked with a team of experts from Peking University to develop a technology to extract collagen by enzymatically dissolving tuna fish bones, filling the gap in the domestic market.
The technique may be complex, but the purpose is well understood, which is to extract collagen from by-products such as tuna bones. As soon as you hear collagen, many women will immediately think of cosmetics and tonics, yes, the extracted collagen is mainly used in the health care products and cosmetics industry.
It can be made into solid drinks and oral liquids, and can also be used to make masks and water milk essences, which can be more cost-effective than simply making fishmeal and fish oil for aquaculture, achieving a doubling of value, how companies are not happy.
A ton of tuna can produce 100 kilograms of tuna fish bones, 100 kilograms of tuna fish bones can produce 1 kilogram of tuna collagen peptides, for enterprises, this is also a lot of income! And this technology can be copied to other fish processing fields.
Of course, in our country, in the field of "finishing" of aquatic processing by-products, it is actually the tilapia farming industry in southern China that went earlier than the tuna enterprises in Rongcheng, Shandong. Some companies have long begun to use tilapia skin and fish scales to make collagen products, although the reputation of tilapia in China has not been obvious, and even some negative, but the "riot operation" of related companies is still very advanced.
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Seeing the success of Chinese companies in this regard, Thai companies also see new profit growth points. The group has upgraded the production model of some factories in China, no longer cooking the whole fish, but first carrying out automated cutting, first separating the by-products such as fish heads, fish bones and internal organs.
The isolated by-products are first extracted from fish oil, and then a protein-rich paste is formed by hydrolases (estimated to be somewhat similar to our domestic technology), which is said to be easier to absorb.
For the two by-products of fish skin and fish scales, which are inherently rich in collagen, the company has developed a new technology to make fish skins and fish scales into colorless and odorless collagen peptides through enzymatic reactions and cleaning procedures.
According to the company's internal executives, the group headquarters has high hopes for new collagen products and plans to invest millions of dollars in commercial production, which will allow the company to strengthen its animal feed, pet food business, and enter the cosmetics and sports nutrition fields, with broad market prospects.
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The aquatic industry, although it is an irreplaceable industry, but after experiencing the combined impact of the new crown epidemic, the traditional aquatic products enterprises have experienced a very severe test, the traditional operating model has exposed its very fatal weakness, if it can not expand the product line and enhance the "anti-attack" ability of the enterprise, then even if it can survive this time, it is still possible to die in the next crisis.
And with the continuous decline of global fishery resources, the continuous tightening of fishery resources will become the focus of fishery resource management in the future, and if enterprises can make effective responses to "open source and throttling", it is also a compulsory course of operation.
Of course, for consumers, high-quality marine products will never lack a market. (End)
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