| Project Name: | Kōura Waste & Wasted Kōura: Initial exploration of uses for lobster by-products for Port Nicholson Fishery |
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| BPA Number: | 2110-01 |
| Funding Round: | Dec 2020 |
| Report(s): | Damian Moran. February 2021. Kōura Waste & Wasted Kōura: Initial exploration of uses for lobster by-products for Port Nicholson Fishery. A Plant & Food Research report prepared for: Port Nicholson Fishery. Milestone No. 89330. Contract No. 38874. Job code: P/211000/03. PFR SPTS No. 20531. |
| For enquiries contact: | Damian Moran |
| Phone: | 03 989 7657 |
| Email: | damian.moran@plantandfood.co.nz |
Summary of Project and Key Findings:
This report seeks to quantify and characterise non-exported kōura/lobster (Jasus edwardsii) whole fish or parts produced at Port Nicholson Fisheries (PNF), and explore potential opportunities for adding value to these by-product streams. The project was supported by a Bioresource Processing Alliance “Stage 0” scoping grant.
A calculator table was produced that summarises published data on the composition of kōura/rock lobster for the purpose of estimating biochemical product yields from different body parts.
There is potential to utilise the cephalothorax (head/body, limbs and viscera/guts) that remains after tailing and process it into a French style lobster soup (termed bisque) in a pouch as a consumer ready product. To keep the proportions of shell:meat:viscera the same as a whole lobster the cephalothorax would need to be treated with High Pressure Processing and hand shucked to allow for efficient separation of these elements.
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