Project number:
1985-037
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$0.00
Organisation:
RMIT University Melbourne City Campus
Project start/end date:
28 Dec 1987
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31 Dec 1987
Contact:
FRDC
1. Develop a range of new products from an under-utilised resource (the doughboy scallop) & a resource which will soon become available (farmed mussels).
2. Produce pilot quantities of products which can be evaluated in both the catering & retail sectors
Final report
Authors:
John Sumner
Catherine Prattley
Darian Warne
Final Report
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2017-09-29
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7.53 MB
1985-037-DLD.pdf
Traditionally, in common with other agriculture-based industries, the Australian Fishing Industry has been production, rather than consumer, oriented. In recent times, however, diminishing markets for meat, fruit and vegetables have served as catalysts for change in these industries, changes embracing the conversion of primary produce into value-added, further processed forms. Value-adding, as well as providing employment opportunities, is a source of added revenue for the processor, and fills the increasing consumer wants of greater variety and convenience.
The Australian Fishing Industry, by contrast, has barely embraced the concept of further-processing, particularly for domestic consumption, despite the market that exists in Australia for processed fish products.
It was against this background that the Food Technology Unit, RMIT sought Federal funding via the Fishing Industry Research Trust Account (FIRTA) to undertake research and development (R&D) into two Victorian products: scallops and mussels.
