Comparative Sea Trials of plastic stack-next and stack only fish boxes

Summary

Although the wooden fish box is still commonly used in Scotland for handling fish both at sea and ashore there is a growing acceptance of an eventual change from wood to plastic boxes. Of the two types of plastic box available (stack-only and stick-nest) the stack-nest is considered a most suitable replacement and is already in use ashore but there have been reservations concerning it use at sea. From June to December of 1986, Seafish carried out a series of comparative trials on Scottish vessels to assess plastic boxes when used at sea. The boxes used were a new stack-nest design, produced to a Seafish specification as a replacement for the wooden box, and an existing plastic stack-only box of the same nominal capacity of 70 litres. The trials are described and discussed in this report This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish.

Publication Reference No.

SR308

Publication date

01 April 1987