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Salmon Byproduct Utilization

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

• a primer -

A project of

Juneau Economic Development Council

with

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

and

Southeast Conference

Funded in part by the Southeast Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund

December 2004

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

Strategy

• find feasible alternatives to discarding of

byproducts from seafood processing

• focus on Southeast Alaska salmon
• financed in part by Southeast Sustainable Salmon

Fund

• cooperators include: harvesters, processors, and
• ther businesses

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

Methods

• investigate the entire value chain of use of byproducts, from

simple discharge (dumping) to industrial uses to human consumption

• possible uses include: fish meal, fish oil, hydrolysate, compost,

nutraceuticals, and others

• basic parameters include capital costs, gross production costs,

seasonal considerations, variable capacity, and shipping costs

• investigate markets for byproducts -- reports available at:

www.jedc.org/salmon

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

SE Alaska Salmon Harvests

(10-year averages, all species)

• 67.7 million fish
• 311.7 million pounds, very variable
• 84.3 million dollars, steadily declining but

upwards trends in niche markets

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

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Southeast Alaska Salmon Harvests

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

A Big Problem

• ~70% of Alaska salmon leaves the state in canned or h&g form
• ~50% of landed weight of salmon is used for human

consumption

• after the salmon is processed, ~50% of every fish is “waste”:

heads, guts, low-value carcasses

• > 150 million pounds of raw material is available for byproduct

processing per year in Southeast Alaska

• leaving 50% byproduct is fillet processing which is the

preferable form of salmon in North America

• standard practice: “grind-and-dump,” discarding this raw

material into ocean

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

Change Is Necessary

• US Environmental Protection Agency requires decrease

and/or elimination of discharges

• US Magnuson-Stevens Act (1996) requires greater

utilization of harvested resources

• depressed markets for salmon meat provide new incentives

for better use of resources

• processors struggle to stay profitable, and continue to buy

fishermen’s fish, while dealing with “waste”

• any increase in profitability improves the economic health
• f the entire industry, which employs ~2,000 in SE Alaska

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

Opportunity

• environmental regulations and seafood economics

force greater attention to byproduct utilization

• growing uses for fish-based protein and other

byproducts: feeds for animals & aquaculture, fertilizer, human consumption, nutraceuticals

• growing demand for fish protein: demand will

exceed supply by 2016

• Alaska can become competitive in global fish

protein markets, and other byproduct-based markets

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

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MILLION METRIC TON Edible Fish Available Demand Aquaculture Source: Fisheries of the United States 2001, FAO 2002

Projected World Demand for Fish Protein

• an opportunity for Alaska-

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

Examples of Uses of Byproducts

• basic products produced in Alaska now
• - fish meal plants: Kodiak, Unalaska, Petersburg,

Seward, Valdez (Bear & Wolf), Cordova,

• - fish oil for fuel: at-sea whitefish processors
• - composting with sawdust: Kake Foods
• - protein hydrolysate: Alaska Protein Recovery
• refined products produced in Alaska in future
• - fish oils for feed & food additives
• - nutraceuticals & cosmetics

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

Byproduct Use Is Influenced by

• raw material: species composition, protein & fat content,

quantities available, seasonality, distance from plant

• costs of operations: utilities, labor, capital equipment,

freight

• technology: types and capacities of machines
• markets: for basic products (eg- liquid fish protein) or

finished products (eg- aquaculture feed)

Salmon Byproduct Utilization

Results and Project Contact

Numerous reports addressing the economics, markets and methods of salmon byproduct utilization can be found on

• ur website.

Project Contact: Lance Miller, Executive Director Juneau Economic Development Council 612 West Willoughby Avenue, Suite A Juneau, Alaska 99801-1732 ph: 907-463-3662 fx: 907-463-3929

http://www.jedc.org/salmon/ lmiller@jedc.org