PRODUCTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE: EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF TRAWL BYCATCH

Hence, improving the profitability of the trade has been of utmost importance and has been the research focus of major fishery industries around the globe. Exploring the potential commercialization of wastes produced by the industry is one way to achieve this goal.

In this context, the waste may point towards discarded fishes, fish parts, etc. In this research, we are going to study the possibility to efficiently extract Fish Protein Hydrolysate (FPH) which has a huge commercial value from discarded by-catch fishes. Trawling is a fishing method which when employed often results in the capture of a huge quantity and diversity of non-target species due to lack of selectivity of the trawl net.