. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 45 reducing six pounds of whole fish into a pound of fine powder. Because FPC converts the whole fish, it retains every one of the 30- odd amino acids that are the main compo- nents of protein. The result is a product that is 7 5 percent protein--and thatcould domuch toward relieving under-nourishment through- out the world. Other countries, like Norway and Sweden, already have begun to produce FPC. The United States is now building its first plant. Although the Food and Drug Administration has approved only hake-like species for the pilot
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 45 reducing six pounds of whole fish into a pound of fine powder. Because FPC converts the whole fish, it retains every one of the 30- odd amino acids that are the main compo- nents of protein. The result is a product that is 7 5 percent protein--and thatcould domuch toward relieving under-nourishment through- out the world. Other countries, like Norway and Sweden, already have begun to produce FPC. The United States is now building its first plant. Although the Food and Drug Administration has approved only hake-like species for the pilot project, all signs indicate that it will soon approve all species. If so, this would mean that the great mass of trash (sea robins, dogfish, sharks) as well as the abundant species the Russians are catching (herring, hake, mackerel) could be harvested. The boats that would go for such fish would havetobe company ves- sels, too large tobe owned by the captain, too expensive and mechanized to hunt for fish in the old, romantic and desultory fashion. The mien whoworkedthese boats would live some- thing like today's clammers or menhaden fishermen. Their work would be more rou- tine, more like drudgery and less like sport, than the life of today's finfishermen. The sea is full of trash. But there is a possibility that the small boats may linger on. Captain Dave Hart from Cape May explains, "Up to now we've done our damnedest to destroy the natural ecology of the sea. We've taken the good fish and let the weeds flourish. If we start to fish for trash we may restore the natural ; He goes on to describe what may happen then: K the finfish do come back, they may do so very suddenly. Fish can reproduce like insects. Scientists opened up one striped bass and found three million ; If the finfish return in vast numbers, large vessels probably will be constructed to fish for them. Such boats already operate out of enormous fishing ports like New Bedford,
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