Promising to tell you the Prawn, the whole Prawn and nothing but the Prawn. Shining a light on global shrimp aquaculture and downstream markets. For those looking in from outside and those inside interested in the wider outside. Food trends, intelligence, tech, regulatory, investment and some fun, way out, or even wacky, shrimp material. Compressing 4,000 years of shrimp knowledge into 40 years – and counting.
From Big Prawn – great initiative.
Now, just calculate the volume of shrimp head going to waste just in France and Spain. Approximately 30% is head. 15% is tail shell. Should retailers and foodservice be responsible for returns? Should there be a drive to eat only value added shrimp – to support cutting down on planetary food waste…not to mention less shipping/logistics of waste.
What now?
But main point of interest for shrimp is “that the yields were not those expected” of the machinery developed and, thus, this is understood as not being competitive to Moroccan hand peel.
Of course this is local EU caught sustainable MSC certified quota thick shelled brown shrimp. Mainly day boats. Product trucked to Morocco can be kept in polyphosphate soak. Loosens up shell from flesh. Processing aid not additive so no labelling required.
Minimal human manual food manipulation and interaction going forward is one path for food.
STiP wrote a bit of a skewed article somewhere about this technology….while the premise is right that manual labour is always ripe for disruption, other factors play their parts….
Prawnmaster looks forward to the sound blasting shrimp sheller – EU patent granted dec 2019
A bit of a non answer by Jim…………..economics?
Its called business. If someone cracks code (production, selling, marketing)……..there is no secret here……………we know production is feasible just not sustainable until economics of scale applied.
Insatiable market yes but not for whole smaller commodity vannamei in the US.
So bigger short term challenge is to economically de-head volume shrimp for the US market.
We are close to patent award and working on the robotics.