INFOPESCA Internacional 28

The development of domestic markets for seafood
by Roland Wiefels
Selling on the international market means to sell on the domestic markets of other countries. Therefore, deficient seafood distribution systems in many countries represent a real and strong barrier to trade. Furthermore, deficient marketing structures also represent a real and strong brake to the development of aquaculture.

How cold is the fish in your fridge?
by Stephen J James and Christian James
Since fresh fish and fish products are highly perishable, they require excellent chilling facilities to maintain product quality and storage life. Over the years, legislations were formulated to govern temperatures during production, distribution and retailing of chilled fish. However, as soon as consumers purchase the fish, the legislative requirements are compromised. The authors analyse the handling of chilled fish by consumers, the temperature requirements in domestic refrigerators and their impact on consumer health, based on studies carried out in some European countries.

Quality auditing in aquaculture: HACCP verification in Cuba
By Marlen González,Maritza Linares y Mirtha Ruíz
A quality auditing was implemented in Cuba as a method to verify the HACCP system applied on aquaculture, processing and marketing units. All these units constitute the INDIPES group. HACCP system has been applied on INDIPES’ activities for la long time to meet the requirements of the foreign markets. The article describes the different stages of this process.

Shellfish farming in Santa Catarina (Brazil)
By Fausto Silvestri, Giovanni Sansone, Francisco Manoel de Oliveira Neto y Jaime Fernando Ferreira
The Brazilian state of Santa Catarina has many typical features that distinguishes it. Bivalve farming is one of them. Scientist from this state have managed to develop an aquaculture technology that fits to the geographical factors of this region. They have also been able to develop a label of origin for their products, that help the latter to be placed at both the domestic and the international markets. The authors present an historical reference of all this process and detail the thechniques used.

Heterophiasis: an illness from fish to human
By Alejandro Perretta, Daniel Carnevia y Oscar Castro
Eating fish contributes to human health and there are practically not doubts about that. Fish, however, being an animal-origin food, contains its own risks. The best way to prevent those risks is to know as deeply as possible all the diseases that fish could transmit. The article brings again the issue of parasitic diseases caused by seafood consumption, focusing in particular in one related to mullets. Meassures to prevent and to control this disease are clearly exposed in this article.

Nutritional value of Amazonic-origin fish
By Rogério S. Jesus, Alfredo Tenuta-Filho, Rosângela P. Torres y Débora I. T. Fávaro
The authors analyzed a number of fish species from the Amazonas River and found interesting results from a nutritional point of view. For instance, species vary very much in terms of mineral and lipid contents. On the other hand, all the species studied shown a high protein content, with every protein containing a high percentage of essential amino-acids. All this findings should be further researched, in particular now that Amazonic fish is the object of many studies carried out by reasearch institutions .

“Sur, camarón y después” (South, shrimp and beyond). A review of today markets
By Santiago Caro
The title refers to a famous tango. And that musical genre, that sings pains and nostalgia, reflects sometimes the feeling of many producers, at least in our region. However, as shown in this article, the Latin American shrimp sector not only knows about pains and nostalgies. Also achievements and resumptions are described. The article focus on a comparision made through a 6- year period.