. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. October I95O COMMERCIAL FISEIKRIES REVIEW TUNA-CANNING PROCEDURE: Hand Packing; The trimraed loins are cut with a knife by hand in a wooden cutting block. The crumbling of the meat during the cutting process is kept at a minimum by this method. A minimum of I65 grams of meat is weighed out in a sniall pan, and these pans are passed along to the packers, Cotton-. riGURE 4 - PACKING CANS WITH ALBACORE TUNA AND CHECKING THE WEIGHT BEFORE SEALING. seed oil imported from the United States is added to the empty cans, the amount of oil added varyi
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. October I95O COMMERCIAL FISEIKRIES REVIEW TUNA-CANNING PROCEDURE: Hand Packing; The trimraed loins are cut with a knife by hand in a wooden cutting block. The crumbling of the meat during the cutting process is kept at a minimum by this method. A minimum of I65 grams of meat is weighed out in a sniall pan, and these pans are passed along to the packers, Cotton-. riGURE 4 - PACKING CANS WITH ALBACORE TUNA AND CHECKING THE WEIGHT BEFORE SEALING. seed oil imported from the United States is added to the empty cans, the amount of oil added varying from a small quantity to about I6 grams. Specifications require that the acid value of the cottonseed oil be less than ; the oil being used now has an acid value of around 0,1. Next, the meat is packed into the cans very care- fully by hand. One momme ( grams) of salt is added with a standard spoon. The can is placed on a hand scale, and the remainder of the cottonseed oil is added with a dipper to bring fhe net weight of the contents to 200 Krams. The cans are closed in vacuum-closing machines, which operate at capacities averaging between 50 to 60 cans per minute. One company passed the cans for five minutes through an exhaust box 60 feet long and then through the vacuum-closing machine. This company believes that the use of both the ex- haust box and the vacuum-closing machine helps to remove any imdesirable odors from the canned fish; however, the vac- uum of the closing machine must be care- fully regulated In order to prevent the loss of the cottonseed oil as the cans ^ +v,-««,,„K +V,- <.l« = <r,r, -,o»v,4^- FIGURE 5 - PACKING DISCARDED SCRAPS OF ALSA- pass through the closing machine. core with soya sauce in tall cans for con- sumption IN Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble th
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