PicoICE Made from Seawater Introduced to Alaska Fisheries
When the f/v Seabrooke begins fishing out of Akutan in the Aleutian Islands in January, plans are for the vessel to be equipped with the technology to turn seawater into tiny ice crystals that form a protective slurry around the Pacific cod catch.
The Aberdeen, Wash. processor’s focus on improving the quality and value of its catch will be enhanced by PicoICE. These very small ice crystals produced from sea water, surround the fish, largely stopping any bacterial action to the flesh by getting the core temperature of the fish down to 31-32 degrees Fahrenheit before the fish goes into rigor mortis.
“Our machines have worked all over the world,” Dan Strickland, the Alaska sales agent for Green Iceberg AS of Oslo, Norway, who was at the 2024 Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle Nov. 20-22...