by Laine Welch | Dec 1, 2020 | Co-products, Fish Radio Programs, Health & Nutrition
Fish skins help humans heal and regrow their own tissue Fish skins that help regenerate human tissue have garnered a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Defense Department to make them...
by Laine Welch | Aug 20, 2020 | Co-products, Fish Radio Programs, Health & Nutrition
The crispiest chips you’ll ever eat are being made from Bristol Bay sockeye salmon skins. It’s a new, flash fried snack spawned by a Los Angeles-based company called Goodfish, a pioneer in foods that are good for people and the planet. “Which derives its entire...
by Laine Welch | Nov 13, 2019 | Co-products, Economics, Fish Radio Programs, Health & Nutrition, Pollock
Fish Radio likes to spotlight fish parts that go well beyond dinner plates and can add up to more value than fillets. Pollock, for example, Alaska’s largest fishery which opens Jan. 20, produces millions of pounds of fish sticks, surimi, and roe – but...
by Laine Welch | Jan 22, 2019 | Co-products, Fish Radio Programs
Since 2011, China has been Alaska’s number one export market and seafood accounts for 54 percent of Alaska exports. In Chinese food culture, fish symbolizes abundance and prosperity, which plays into the growing middle class that has significant disposable income...
by Laine Welch | Dec 11, 2018 | Co-products, Economics, Fish Radio Programs
Fish skins are in the news again as they treat animals burned in the California wildfires. The Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at the University of California, Davis is treating dogs, cats, bears and mountain lions with tilapia skins that releave pain and...
by Laine Welch | Nov 27, 2018 | Co-products, Cod, Fish Radio Programs, Health & Nutrition
Cod is one of the world’s most popular fish but just using the fillets leaves up to 60 percent of each fish on the cutting room floor. Those fish parts present lots of opportunities. Cod skins, for example, contain 17 percent of valuable collagen which has hundreds of...
