INFOPESCA Internacional 25

The recovery of omega 3. Taking advantage of the essential.
An interview with Alejandro Uval
The technical director of a fish processing plant, by properly organizing his work and time, managed to dedicate his free time to what he liked the most: investigation. He also took advantage of the company means and infrastructure, while his employers’ supported him. As a result, he invented a method by which fish oil can be enterily extracted from fish, with no losses. Fish oil can be a very important part of human feeding. Something essential in times when bad feeding is causing havoc in human beings.

Oceanic acquaculture: a model of marine farming for future
By Carlos F. Wurmann G.
A second wave in acquaculture? So far, this activitiy has been assotiacted to coastal or inshore facilities, but the possibility of farming in the open sea, presents a completely different scenario. This could be the turn for those countries where acquaculture has not been industrially developed yet. The author forecasts a challenging future, even with big consequences on the internatinal seafood trade.

Fish filleting: A possible alternative to create jobs and earnings in the Colombian Amazonic trapezium
E. Agudelo, J.C Alonso, C.L. Sánchez, M. Núñez-Avellaneda and L. F. Ricaurte
The city of Leticia has the only port over the Amazonas river in Colombia. Some 8,600 MT of fish per year, are traded from there to the capital of the country. However, the fish does not suffer any other processing than eviscerating. The authors are firmly convinced that much more economic utiltities could be obtain from fisheries through filleting of fish, which in turn would result in job creation and thus benefit that region.

Skin infections linked to handling shrimp
By Daniel Holliman
Bacteria associated with shrimp can cause infections in persons who regularly handle shrimp. They originate from the direct inocultion of bacteria to skin and wounds, or ingestion of contanimated shrimp. Most infections of either type are self-limitating and not life-threatening, but can become severe in individuals with certain predisposing factors