. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. SEA SCIENCE meat as a food ingredient. Around the same time, the first expenmental sunmi production plant was being set up in Alabama. The company requested North Carolina Sea Grant's assistance in developing domestic uses for the raw material made from croaker, a fish abundant in both the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic waters. This led to a number of research initiatives by Lanier and Donald Hamann of NC State to explore the properties of fish proteins for enhancing their uses in the domestic food supp
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. SEA SCIENCE meat as a food ingredient. Around the same time, the first expenmental sunmi production plant was being set up in Alabama. The company requested North Carolina Sea Grant's assistance in developing domestic uses for the raw material made from croaker, a fish abundant in both the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic waters. This led to a number of research initiatives by Lanier and Donald Hamann of NC State to explore the properties of fish proteins for enhancing their uses in the domestic food supply. "Our focus switched to the more abundant Alaskan pollock resource of the North Pacific in the early 1980s," says Lanier. The Sea Grant research centered on understanding the gelling properties of surimi as they related to development of new surimi- based shellfish analog products, including imitation crab, scallops and shrimp. The scientists pioneered new testing techniques for surimi gelling quality, the most critical factor determining the price and uses of any batch of raw surimi. Later, the scientists demonstrated for the first time how quality fish protein product or surimi could be manufactured from Atlantic. ABOVE: Imitation crabsticks — often used in seafood salads — can be found at supermarkets across the country. menhaden, an industrial fish caught in waters around North Carolina and other states. Menhaden had previously not been used for direct human consumption. However, commercial production using menhaden in surimi products has not begun. "Surimi production in the United States became a very successful venture, increasing from only about 4,000 metric tons in 1988 to nearly 200,000 metric tons a decade later," says Lanier. Sea Grant scientists and other colleagues led efforts to use standardize testing methods to assess the quality of surimi. Their efforts culminated in the first Surimi School at Oregon State University, which is headed
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