. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. UNITED STATES U. S. Seeks Contractor for FPC Pilot Plant The Department of the Interior has invited proposals from private contractors to build the Government's first pilot plant for produc- ing fish protein concentrate (FPC). The plant is intended to show the practicability of man- ufacturing FPC by using the BCF isopropyl- alcohol process--and to serve as a guide to private companies in designing and building full-scale plants. The deadline for the proposals is July 10. They must meet BCF standards and involve a plant able to process 50 t
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. UNITED STATES U. S. Seeks Contractor for FPC Pilot Plant The Department of the Interior has invited proposals from private contractors to build the Government's first pilot plant for produc- ing fish protein concentrate (FPC). The plant is intended to show the practicability of man- ufacturing FPC by using the BCF isopropyl- alcohol process--and to serve as a guide to private companies in designing and building full-scale plants. The deadline for the proposals is July 10. They must meet BCF standards and involve a plant able to process 50 tons of raw fish in24 hours. The FPC produced in pilot plant will be used in studies of ways to make the con- centrate part of the foods consumed in the U. S. and abroad. BCF plans to award the contract during the summer and to have the plant working by Spring 1968. The Pacific Northwest has been picked as the location for the pilot plant because BCF exploration off the coast found vast amounts of hake, which are used in the BCF process. The exact spot for the plant waits on the se- lection of a contractor. President Johnson's 1968 budget for Inte- rior Department asks for $1 million for de- sign and construction of the plant and $700,000 to operate and maintain it and for related re- search. A Machine to Skin Fish A portable machine that can skin "almost any size fish--up to 9 inches wide and any length," its Seattle, Wash., makers say, has been put on the market. It sells for $4,750, and was demonstrated recently by the Marine Construction & Design Co. E. L. Grimes, of the company's fisheries-development divi- sion, says: "It is a simple and economical machine designed to meet the needs of the small and medium-sized ; The filleted fish, tail first, enters the aluminum-stainless steel machine. An ad- justable knife blade in a chute catches, clamps down, and strips the skin as the fish moves down onto a conveyor. Grimes explains: "It strips
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