date:Aug 22, 2014
uld be kept alive in tanks for five to six hours, long enough for blood to be removed from the white muscles.
This is the first time vacuum pumping has been used to get the fish onboard from the cod-end on a trawler. Pumping ensures that the fish are in contact with water all the time, and they are not subject to gravity. Using this method means that the quality, and thus also the price, of trawl-caught fish are at least as good as those of line-caught fish, said Kjell Midling from Nofima and h