Hello,
I like to make an addition to the bleeding of live fish. In the Netherlands
new legislation will become into force making the killing of cultured fish
by cooling with flaked ice, salt baths, live stripping, live bleeding a.s.o.
illegal. Cultured fish has to be killed instantaniously with approved
electric shock equipment. New automated equipment to achieve this is being
developed and tested for African catfish and European eels.
It is to be expected that within the EU similar legislation will be
developed in the years to come. Some EU countries already have some form of
legislation on this matter. Along these lines it is expected that European
supermarkets will start asking for guarantees in order to assure that they
can offer fish products which are produced using instantatious killing
methods of live fish.
Bleeding live fish to death is in my opinon not a processing method with a
long lasting future in this perspective. I think more research efforts
should be directed into instantanious killing methods achieving the same
result and quality as with bleeding live fish to death. In the end the
consumer will not accept live bleeding of fish.
The research on instantanious killing of fish is conducted at the RIVO-DLO
fisheries institute in The Netherlands. A link to some recent literature can
be found below
http://www.rivo.dlo.nl/index1/index.htm
Evert Liewes
Diemen
The Netherlands
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