An investigation of the potential of the Baader 34 and 182 machines for filleting small gadoids

Summary

Large quantities of small haddock and whiting are landed in the UK. There is no efficient filleting machinery currently available for these fish, and the cost of processing them by hand is disproportionately high. Consequently their market value is low, and often they are withdrawn from sale when landings are heavy. The SFIA has been contracted by MAFF to carry out a commercial evaluation of the Baader 34 herring filleting machine, modified for blue whiting, for filleting these fish. The SFIA also undertook to investigate the new Baader 182, a filleting machine being developed for small gadoids from the now discontinued prototype Baader 121 blue whiting filleting machine. Blue whiting is a gadoid and thus is physically more similar to haddock and whiting than herring. 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.

SR205

Publication date

01 March 1983